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unhealthfulness

  • a word derived from unhealthful.
    unhealthful
    adjective
    not conducive to good health; unwholesome.

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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

Their prohibition is, we believe, founded on the intrinsic unhealthfulness of the thing itself.

From Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. by Ledyard Bill

Those ministries were, it is true, scarce desirable, both because of the smallness of their stipends, because they carried with them unendurable hardships, and because of the unhealthfulness of the territory.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Emma Helen Blair

At this time, Bishop Mackensie and one of his missionaries had already succumbed to the unhealthfulness of the climate, and on the 27th of April, Mrs. Livingstone died in her husband's arms.

From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne