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Meanings of unwholesome in English

Detrimental to physical or moral well-being.

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      Usage of unwholesome in English
      1
      One cannot live in town now, it is both dreary and unwholesome.
      Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
      2
      The skins and kernels of the larger fruits are unwholesome, because indigestible.
      The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health
      3
      Selfish respectability is most unwholesome in its unhealthy sympathy with selfish respectability.
      The Freedom of Life
      4
      I tried their plan once, and found it very harassing and unwholesome.
      Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
      5
      But, alas I it seems now the most thoroughly morbid and unwholesome.
      Power Through Repose
      6
      A change as unusual as it was unwholesome came upon the ocean.
      See America First
      7
      They eat them pickled in salt, and most thoroughly unwholesome they appeared.
      Fred Markham in Russia; Or, The Boy Travellers in the Land of th...
      8
      Both classes of books were good in their intention, both similarly unwholesome.
      Library Work with Children
      9
      It is unusual weather for the season even here, and very unwholesome.
      Records of a Girlhood
      10
      But he was also hungry, with a gnawing, unwholesome kind of hunger.
      Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
      11
      Luke studied the run-down structures and equally unwholesome-looking individuals they were passing.
      Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
      12
      The room, which was almost bare of furniture, felt damp and unwholesome.
      Vane of the Timberlands
      13
      I am not sure that unwholesome is not too weak a word.
      The Yellow Crayon
      14
      He was too unwholesome looking, and his face was mean and sly.
      The Blood Ship
      15
      There are unwholesome fashions in literature, which, translated into life, mean ruin.
      George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
      16
      He felt sure that sentiment about desolate chapels was an unwholesome thing.
      Our Casualty, and Other Stories / 1918
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