hygienically challenged

hygienically challenged

Not clean; dirty. (Pseudo-politically correct slang used for humorous effect.) Don't get too close to that fellow over there, he's a bit, uh, hygienically challenged.
See also: challenged
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hygienically challenged

Euph. [of a person] dirty. (Jocular.) Bill always smells terrible. He must be hygienically challenged. A couple of the kids in my class are, let us say, hygienically challenged.
See also: challenged
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • horizontally challenged
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
  • save someone's skin
  • gravitationally challenged
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • other than
  • other than (something)
References in periodicals archive
However, as the first run of this series proved, sometimes the obsessively clean and the (ahem) hygienically challenged can learn a thing or two from each other about how their attitudes to housework are affecting their lives.
He's handsome, he's talented, his teeth are whiter than icebergs, and he doesn't appear hygienically challenged. So why is he always on the losing end of the romantic equation, so much so that being dumped by your girlfriend will one day be known as "getting Marsdened"?
Period drama-makers have been all too happy to remind us of these less hygienically challenged times, when the unadulterated foul nature of this land was green, but far from pleasant.
I thought it was too strong and smelled like mouthwash - maybe that's a plus for some hygienically challenged blokes, though.
Instead, she ends up with a hygienically challenged ogre and his donkey.
The private eye smoothly establishes rapport with a hygienically challenged aging but observant elevator man and a similarly discerning ex-jockey turned chauffeur.
Instead, she ended up with a hygienically challenged ogre and his wisecracking donkey sidekick.