[
US
/ənˈhɛɫθfəɫ/
]
ADJECTIVE
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detrimental to good health
unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint
unhealthful air pollution -
not sanitary or healthful
grim and unsanitary conditions
unsanitary open sewers - detrimental to health
How To Use unhealthful In A Sentence
- To avoid fattening, unhealthful fats, you need to understand what types of foods they are concealed in.
- He doesn't deny that modern western lifestyles have many unhealthful components. Times, Sunday Times
- These unhealthful eating habits carried on into adulthood, and by the time I entered my mid-20s, I ate whatever my heart desired, without any thoughts about nutrition.
- She would read, she would write, and she would be free from 'unhealthful, uncomfortable ... inconvenient ... fettering, hampering, monstrous skirts'. The Times Literary Supplement
- This biological process wasted food and, with expanding scientific knowledge of bacteria during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, began to be seen as unhealthful.
- He concluded first that common knowledge did not suggest that baking was unhealthful.
- A few gave up the battle, and moved away on account of the unhealthfulness of the country.
- Apparently the manufacturers of these items feel that trans-fats are so unhealthful that consumers won't buy products that use them.
- Health officials have declared the air to be unhealthful.
- Instead of following a rigid plan, substitute an unhealthful habit for a better one.
