unwholesome
IPA: ʌnhˈoʊɫsʌm
adjective
- Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthful.
- Not sound; tainted; defective.
- Indicating unsound health; characteristic of or suggesting an unsound condition, physical or mental; repulsive; offensive.
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Examples of "unwholesome" in Sentences
- It's unhealthy and unwholesome.
- She looks unwholesome and unhealthy.
- The unwholesome foursome were not convinced.
- That sounds filthy and dirty and unwholesome.
- Unwholesome trades and manufactories do not exist.
- The roots of the unwholesome are greed, hate and delusion.
- All that unwholesome food and music does not elicit nostalgia.
- That chemical additives in the graham bread made it unwholesome.
- It's unhealthy and unwholesome, dare I be uncivil to say neurotic
- Graham argued that chemical additives in bread made it unwholesome.
- And if so, that suggests to me that there's something kind of unwholesome, perhaps, at work in all of this.
- Compassion is the desire that living beings be free of suffering and its causes, such as unwholesome actions.
- But 't is called unwholesome to get a house full o 'damp in the fall o' the year; 't will freeze an 'thaw in the walls all winter.
- Thank you for such a smart dissection of an article like this, which I agree contributes to the kind of unwholesome blogosphere folderol that I try to avoid on my own blog.
- Now, in 2004, WC has associated itself with a movie that includes such "unwholesome" activities as; pot smoking, sex, and sexual perversion …Such dissonance is not lost on the company.
- She had been a soldier's wife, and had seen the world; infirmity, induced by fevers caught in unwholesome quarters, had come on her before its time, and she seldom moved from her little cot.
- What Greek teaching reached their minds was almost wholly that of the _ludi scenici_; and I must now say a word in conclusion about this unwholesome influence -- unwholesome, that is, so far as it affected the old religious ideas.
- Meanwhile, the Jos branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has described as unwholesome, unconstitutional and parochial, the resolution of the Federal House of Representatives which directed the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to redeploy corps members posted to Plateau State to other states.
- It could be recalled that the apex bank had last year August embarked on banking reforms that swept some new and old generation banks off their feet and had their Chief Executive officers fired over what it described as unwholesome banking practices bordering on alleged illegal acquisition of loans, shares and procedures.