unhealthful
adjective
not conducive to good health; unwholesome.
unhealthfulness
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a word derived from
unhealthful.
Example Sentences
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“It is apparent that this view of the unhealthfulness of our city is gaining ground abroad and that great injury is thereby done to its material prosperity,” said the resolution.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2022
These findings suggest public education regarding the unhealthfulness of fast food may not influence fast food consumption.
From Forbes ● Jul. 17, 2012
The enervating character and unhealthfulness of the climate of the region explored proved most disastrous to the members of the expedition.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam
In the summer and autumn the population increased, as the planters' families stayed in the metropolis to escape the unhealthfulness of the back country.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
I am very glad to notice that the effort made a few years ago by a French reformer to abolish the stocking on the ground of unhealthfulness has met with well-merited failure.
From Cordwood by Bill Nye
