unwholesome
adjective
not wholesome; unhealthful; deleterious to health or physical or moral well-being.
unwholesomely
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a word derived from
unwholesome.
Example Sentences
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“He considered both theater and novels a foolish waste of time and recoiled from all games of chance, believing that they unwholesomely excited the mind.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2020
The breakfast muffins my fellow participants and I were given were an off-putting shade of indigo, unwholesomely oily and had to be washed down within 10 minutes with yucky-flavoured milk.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2019
Monty Paliser was conscious of that, but not unwholesomely.
From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus
She could see the fine dew of perspiration at his waxen temples, and the lean hand over which she laid her own was cool after all these feverish days, unwholesomely cool.
From The Heart of Rachael by Kathleen Thompson Norris
I suffered from a very proud, sensitive nature, perhaps unwholesomely intensified by the lonely life I had led, and a peculiar sense of my difference from other people.
From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by L. P. Gratacap
