Word Finder - unwholesome

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Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthful.

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unwholesome air, or food

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Not sound; tainted; defective.

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Indicating unsound health; characteristic of or suggesting an unsound condition, physical or mental; repulsive; offensive.

I never allow my daughters to touch any thing so unwholesome!

The ability to accomplish one's work is success in occupation, be it in the wholesome way or in the unwholesome way.

In the latter case they become green and have an acrid taste, which renders them unpalatable to human beings, and as poisonous qualities are produced similar to those of many Solanaceae they are unwholesome.

Tindal's aim seems to have been a sober statement of the whole case in favour of natural religion, with copious but moderately worded criticism of such beliefs and usages in the Christian and other religions as he conceived to be either non-religious or directly immoral and unwholesome.

Bread made from bunted flour is dark in colour, and both unpalatable and unwholesome.

More than one would have seemed lacking in taste, unwholesome, even unchristian (tho there were several WC's ).

At around the same time there were some rather unwholesome things happening back in the Highlands of Scotland.

Such a place must be very unwholesome, and the smell of it was complained of by the neighbors.

Bad generalship, which is sufficiently obvious, unwholesome food - it was Lent, and they ate the Nile fish which had been feasting on the carcases of the slain - and Greek fire did the rest, and personal valour was of little avail,not merely against superior numbers and better generals,but against dysentery and a certain "mal de l'ost" which attacked the mouth and the legs, a curious human version of a well-known bestial malady.

Samatha can purify the mind, but it cannot eradicate unwholesome latent tendencies.

More than one would have seemed lacking in taste, unwholesome, even unchristian (tho there were several WC 's).

Some cittas are the result of wholesome or unwholesome deeds; they are vipakacittas.

They apply purifications and incantations and all manner of charlatanry, but mark they also enforce abstinence from unwholesome food.

The wholesome and unwholesome tendencies we accumulate today condition future moments of kusala citta and akusala citta.

I never allow my daughters to touch any thing so unwholesome !

It is not necessary to the promotion of this manufacture that the spinners and weavers should be congregated in large towns, or united in crowded and unwholesome factories.

From 1815 to 1820 a number of low-priced and unwholesome periodicals flourished.

In times of great national disasters he deserves to be remembered as a true patriot; but the spirit of his poetry is altogether unwholesome.

The birth-rate of the people is considered to exceed the death-rate by very little, and the Red Karen habit of life is most unwholesome.

The old sewers were found quite inadequate to carry off the large increase of water, and besides they all led directly into the bay, causing a terrible odour and rendering the water near the town unwholesome for bathing.

Hell can be a physical location such as a prison or a psychological state experienced as a consequence of unwholesome actions.

We will come to know more about our unwholesome, unskilful states of mind and our wholesome, skillful, states of mind.

If upon such inspection the meat, &c., appears to be diseased, unsound or unwholesome, it may be taken before a justice for the purpose of being condemned, and the person to whom the meat, &c., belongs or in whose possession it was found is liable to a penalty or, in the discretion of the justices, to imprisonment for three months without the option of a fine.

The immediate result of this concentration of people in a spot so unwholesome was the prevalence of disease, produced by the appalling sanitary conditions.

The treaties of Angoulme and Angers (1610-1620), negotiated by Richelieu, recalled the unwholesome treaties of Sainte-Menehould and Loudun.

Generally, the idea of tattooing makeup to the face is thought of as frightening and unwholesome.

Raw foodists believe that critical enzymes are depleted by eating cooked foods and unwholesome foods.