Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating
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Examples
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Not to mention the insalubriousness of the place confirmed by the Academie des Sciences several years ago when they recommended to the king that the cemetery be relocated outside of the city.
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Not to mention the insalubriousness of the place confirmed by the Academie des Sciences several years ago when they recommended to the king that the cemetery be relocated outside of the city.
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With this, I sat down, leaving my audience as _sotto voce_ as fishes with admiration and amazement at the facundity of my eloquence, and should indubitably have been the recipient of innumerable felicitations but for the fact that Miss SPINK, suddenly experiencing sensations of insalubriousness, requested me, without delay, to conduct her from the assemblage.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895
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Mutterings of the word "poor" and "rich" naturally create an image of insalubriousness versus opulence.
Accra by Day & Night 2009
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