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
On the moorland face the silver flowes glittered unwholesomely, deadly as quicksands in the Bay of Luce.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
William was unwholesomely precocious as a boy, pious, studious and greedy for distinction and praise.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Henry Noel Brailsford
A hot light had suddenly leapt into his eyes, which left them shining unwholesomely.
From The Man in the Twilight by Ridgwell Cullum
