[
UK
/ʌnhˈəʊlsʌm/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
detrimental to physical or moral well-being
unwholesome habits like smoking
unwholesome food
How To Use unwholesome In A Sentence
- Making ourselves miserable by these cravings and wishes is the unwholesome pattern of envy.
- Thank you for such a smart dissection of an article like this, which I agree contributes to the kind of unwholesome blogosphere folderol that I try to avoid on my own blog. How to Irritate and Annoy People in the Name of Blogging « Whatever
- Nevertheless, to kill any living being is an unwholesome thing to do.
- But 't is called unwholesome to get a house full o 'damp in the fall o' the year; 't will freeze an 'thaw in the walls all winter. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
- Her first feature, La Ciénaga, or The Swamp, exuded a fetid, toxic atmosphere: a film on the verge of swooning, overcome by its own unwholesomely sensual fumes.
- I watch her leap from rock to earth, my muscles trembling, sated in some unwholesome way. MOON PASSAGE
- Go to, then; we'll use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know turtles from jays. The Merry Wives of Windsor
- If the Police didn't think Skolnick looked suspicious, she thought, Markets would surely tag him as unwholesome. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
- Like a lot of lefties spooked by recent unwholesome political successes by the American right, I'm angry and feeling rhetorically confrontational these days, but violence is not the way to express it.
- In the unwholesome pool, or ever – stagnant lake. antistrophe 2 Sophocles : Philoctetes