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London was all "noise, unwholesomeness, dirt and fret."

From Time Magazine Archive

Disdaining pitchfork theatrics, he is a provokingly cool customer even when buying souls, with a tart, casual manner and a fine, stylish unwholesomeness.

From Time Magazine Archive

As to the pretended unwholesomeness of milk in certain cases; as to its not being adapted to some constitutions, I do not believe one word of the matter.

From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William

The same may come from disease in the cow's udder, or any general disease of the cow with attendant fever, and in all such cases the tendency is to rapid change and unwholesomeness.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

Simmy was reluctant about going down to the house off Washington Square; he was constituted as one of those who shrink from the unwholesomeness of death rather than from its terrors.

From From the Housetops by Cootes, F. Graham