Word Finder - unhealthy

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Characterized by, or conducive to poor health

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The villagers lived in unhealthy surroundings.

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Sick or ill

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He was an unhealthy child.

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Tending to corrupt

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He liked unhealthy reading material.

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Characterized by disturbed mental health

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He had an unhealthy interest in fire.

The climate is for the most part temperate and healthy, but it is hot and unhealthy on the coast.

The climate is in general very hot and unhealthy, the rainfall being very heavy.

Its large eyes appeared young and unhealthy, almost dropsical.

Everywhere it is most unhealthy, and inhabited only by tribes who seem proof against malaria.

It was unhealthy and unprosperous.

The site is so unhealthy that even the Circassians who settled there twenty years ago have almost all died off or emigrated.

A range of low hills affords shelter on the west and south-west; but on every other side there are drained, though still unhealthy, marshes, stretching away to meet the central Walachian plains.

On the other hand, they may give off unhealthy fumes and produce unpleasant odours.

The climate is generally unhealthy during that period and the months following.

Young plants a few inches high are usually attacked; the leaves, beginning with the lower ones, turn yellow, and afterwards become brown and drop. The plants remain very dwarf and generally unhealthy, or die.

The water-supply is very unhealthy.

The climate of the coastal zone and deeper valleys is hot, humid and unhealthy, malarial fevers being prevalent.

Retalhuleu, among the southern foothills of the Sierra Madre, is one of the centres of coffee production, and is connected by rail with the Pacific port of Champerico, a very unhealthy place in the wet season.

The south-western plain, though rendered unhealthy by lagoons, and central Aetolia yield good crops of currants, vine, maize and tobacco, which are conveyed by railway from Agrinion and Anatolikon to the coast.

The town itself is unhealthy and strangers especially are apt to be attacked by fever.

Too much water is as unhealthy for plants as too little water.

Eating out does not have to be synonymous with unhealthy food.

Hitherto Ostia does not seem to have been very unhealthy.

The climate is naturally good, but continued neglect of sanitary precautions has made the city unhealthy.

Climate, &c. - It was formerly the custom to speak of the Malay Peninsula as an unhealthy climate, and even to compare it with the west coast of Africa.

The intricate water-ways and the stubborn Venetian defence baffled all his attempts to reach Rialto; the summer heats came on; the Lido was unhealthy.

The modern Nezib or Nasibin consists of some 4000 inhabitants, largely Jews, who pay tribute to the Shammar Bedouins., The neighbourhood, we are informed by Arab writers, was at one time richly wooded, but is now somewhat marshy and unhealthy.

Although liable to great extremes of temperature, and to a very scanty rainfall, the district is not unhealthy.

The Palazzo del Tribunale (law courts) is a fine building, and the upper town contains several good houses of rich proprietors of the province; while the lower portion is unhealthy.

There is a wide variation of climate for so small a territory, the higher elevations of the Sierra de Ajusco being cold and humid (the Mexican Central crosses the range at an elevation of 9974 ft.); the lower spurs mild, temperate and healthy, the lower valleys subtropical, hot and unhealthy.

The summer climate in the confined space within the town is excessively hot and unhealthy.

The climate of the coast-lands is moist and hot, and extremely unhealthy, malarial fever being prevalent and deadly.

Though situated near the mountainous section of southern Buenos Aires, the immediate vicinity of the city is low and swampy, its water is brackish, and it has been decidedly unhealthy; but a water supply from the Sauce Grande, 50 m.

Saltmaking is by no means an unhealthy trade, some slight soreness of the eyes being the only affection sometimes complained of; indeed the atmosphere of steam saturated with salt in which the workmen live seems specially preservative against colds, rheumatism, neuralgia, &c.

They were long worked by convict labour, owing to their unhealthy atmosphere; and exemption from military service is granted to miners who have worked at Almaden for two years.

The place was formerly very unhealthy, but this has been to a large extent remedied by the establishment of water-works, a good supply of water being derived from the river Banka.

The island is densely wooded (in marked contrast with the opposite Peruvian shore), and is considered unhealthy throughout the greater part.

Astura was the site of a favourite villa of Cicero, whither he retired on the death of his daughter Tullia in 45 B.C. It appears to have been unhealthy even in Roman times; according to Suetonius, both Augustus and Tiberius contracted here the illnesses which proved fatal to them.

The work of packing is a most disagreeable and unhealthy operation which is best relieved by erecting the chambers at a higher level and placing the casks underneath, communication being made by means of traps in the chamber-bottom, so that the packers can do their work FIG.

Havana, originally founded by Diego Velasquez in 1514 on an unhealthy site near the present Bataban6 (pop. in 1907, 15,435, including attached country districts), on the south coast, was soon removed to its present position, was granted an ayuntam.iento (town council), and shortly came to be considered one of the most important places in the New World.

The climate of the district, although cooler than that of Calcutta, is very unhealthy, and the people have a sickly appearance.

The most unhealthy period of the year follows immediately after the rains, when malaria is prevalent, especially in northern India.

Port Louis, which is governed by an elective municipal council, is surrounded by lofty hills and its unhealthy situation is aggravated by the difficulty of effective drainage owing to the small amount of tide in the harbour.

This region bears the reputation of being the most unhealthy in all India, and in many parts only the acclimatized aborigines can withstand its deadly malaria.

The town is very old and irregularly built, and the climate is unhealthy; nevertheless it has a lively export trade in sugar and coffee and is a regular port of call.

The climate of the coast district is hot, moist and unhealthy, with a season of heavy rain lasting from May to November, during which time variable winds, calms and tornadoes succeed one another.

Some places, such as Bidi in Sarawak, for instance, are notoriously unhealthy; but from the statistics of the Dutch government, and the records of Sarawak and British North Borneo, it would appear that the European in Borneo has in general not appreciably more to fear than his fellow in Java, or in the Federated Malay States of the Malayan Peninsula.

The winter here, especially in the elevated region of the Paramera and the waste lands of Avila, is long and severe, but the climate is not unhealthy.

In 1700 the East Indian Company established a factory here; but the place was found to be unhealthy, and the Company's servants were finally attacked by the natives, whom they repulsed with great difficulty.

On the Mediterranean coast, unhealthy salt marshes alternate with rich plains of pleasant and productive huertas or gardens, such as those of Alicante and Denia.

The coast lands are unhealthy and have earned for Sierra Leone the unenviable reputation of being "the white man's grave."

There are localities in the open country and on exposed elevations where healthy conditions prevail, but the greater part of this region is considered unhealthy.

The forest and river scenery of the neighbourhood of Stettin is picturesque, but the low level and swampy nature of the soil render the climate bleak and unhealthy.

Only a small part of the state, the climate of which is very unhealthy, is capable of cultivation; the rest is covered with rocky hills, forest and brushwood.

The climate of the city was originally very unhealthy, but it has improved greatly of recent years with modern sanitation and drainage.