salutary
adjective
favorable to or promoting health; healthful.
unsalutary
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a word derived from
salutary.
Example Sentences
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It may be no unsalutary lesson to the Christian world, that this silent, this unavoidable, perhaps, yet fatal change shall have been drawn by an impartial, or even an hostile hand.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Henry Hart Milman
This was a measure of unnecessary severity towards non-combatants, and had an unsalutary effect.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
And to do this, it may be, throws no unsalutary sidelight upon the still-existent problem: at what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?
From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell
It furnished a strong, and perhaps not an unsalutary contrast, to the terrors which had preceded, and the dreadful scenes that awaited me.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
Dr. Waagen was of opinion that the academic system gave an artificial elevation to mediocrity; that it deadened natural talent, and introduced into the freedom of art an unsalutary degree of authority and interference.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
