What's the difference between insalubrious and noisome?
Insalubrious
Definition:
(a.) Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The neighbourhood is extremely insalubrious, so this is not a place in which to wander about, and certainly not at night.
(2) In a time when the conditions of work were strikingly insalubrious, the etiological emphasis was on individual failure, not on physical or social conditions of work.
(3) But while the French government said there would be no change, there were signs that politicians on the right wanted to use the Brexit result to push for a renewed debate on the deal that has left thousands of migrants and refugees stuck at Calais in insalubrious and dangerous conditions in shanty camps.
(4) MacMillan subsisted on an insalubrious diet of alcohol, cigarettes, antidepressants and psychoanalysis – and yet still produced definitive works, including Manon, Elite Syncopations (a rare comedy) and Requiem.
(5) Police officers have avoided Lewisham for years, fearful of being asked to sign a petition On Silicon Roundabout , in central London’s insalubrious Old Street, there are people who spend all day on the internet, breaking from their secretive research only to communicate with friends on the encrypted radical hotbed known as Whatsapp .
(a.) Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, they would get a prolonged dose of noisome substances while watching fey and gentle films like the first half of The Sound of Music or the whole of Love Actually .
(2) And there certainly things wrong with 6 Music, not least the noisome presence of George Lamb, who seems to have been employed by the BBC after a concerted and ultimately fruitful search to find a DJ more irritating than Radio One's Chris Moyles, an impressive feat he achieves by the expedient of continually lapsing into faux Jamaican patois.