wholesome

IPA: hˈoʊɫsʌm

adjective

  • Promoting good physical health and well-being.
  • Promoting moral and mental well-being.
  • Favourable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous.
  • Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy.
  • Decent; innocuous; sweet.
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Examples of "wholesome" in Sentences

  • Just good lookin ', wholesome gals I wished lived next door.
  • Thankfully, Davila seems committed to keeping the title wholesome and honest.
  • When they eat they get together, three or four of them in wholesome fellowship.
  • They can be made dairy free, still be delicious, and contain wholesome goodness.
  • That is what I call wholesome and healthy - so we are as we always were prior to this little blip.
  • The taste of the public has, of late years, been accustomed to very high stimulants: no plain wholesome food will go down; and every thing must be hashed and stewed with some "sauce piquante," which however delicious to one palate, may be very offensive and disgusting to another.
  • His vigorous will seemed to dominate over the whole household; he would drag me out peremptorily for what he called wholesome exercise, which meant long, scrambling walks, which sent me home with tingling pulses and exuberant spirits, until the atmosphere of the sick room moderated and subdued them again.

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