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Example sentences for "unwholesome"

Lexicographically close words:
unweeting; unwelcome; unwell; unwept; unwhipped; unwholesomeness; unwholsome; unwieldly; unwieldy; unwilling
  1. All that has been said concerning unwholesome subject-matter for special feature stories applies to sensational titles.

  2. According to the best journalistic standards, nothing should be printed that will exert a demoralizing or unwholesome influence.

  3. There was that in the fellow's manner which, for the moment, had for me an unwholesome fascination.

  4. There is no reason in the world, but our own spiritual indolence and the torpidity of our consciences, why we should continue to feed on the unwholesome literary garbage provided for us by the humanitarianism and pruriency of the age.

  5. Most of the medicinal purgatives will produce sickness and vomiting if given in overdoses; of course unwholesome food or disease may frequently be the cause.

  6. He certainly had an unwholesome hankering after this drug.

  7. All know, who have watched the world, how unwholesome for a man's soul any trade or occupation is which offers the chance of making a rapid fortune.

  8. Because we will not keep up a wholesome and trustful belief in God in prosperity, we are awakened out of our dream of unbelief, to an unwholesome and mistrustful belief in Him in adversity.

  9. The heat of the climate and strange and unwholesome food began to sweep them off in great numbers, whilst his own health gave way, never to be restored.

  10. Many of them were wasted by sickness, worn down by fatigue and scanty and unwholesome fare.

  11. Mavis would not hear of it, till Windebank pointed out that her child's health might be permanently injured by further residence in unwholesome Halverton Street.

  12. The richest cake that can be made (provided it is light and well baked) is less unwholesome than what are called plain cakes, if they are solid or leathery.

  13. To avoid all risk from the unwholesome vinegar offered for sale, families would do well to make their own.

  14. Cabbage cooked in this manner loses its unpleasant odour, and its unwholesome properties, and may be eaten without apprehension, except by persons decidedly dyspeptic.

  15. All things of bad quality are unwholesome as well as unpalatable.

  16. It has no peculiar taste, and no unwholesome properties.

  17. The love for unwholesome surroundings will eventually put a check on a perfectly free body, although sometimes the wonder is that the check is so long in coming.

  18. The mind preys on itself, the most unwholesome food.

  19. He found her waist so tightly laced as to admit of little room for full and free respiration; this, with late hours and unwholesome food, was doing its work.

  20. Indigestion is the result of irregular, hasty, or unwholesome meals, and likewise meals in quantity beyond that required by genuine hunger and health.

  21. The earth which brings forth its crop of unwholesome weeds so bountifully, resists man's approaches when he strives to bring it under cultivation.

  22. The Emperor's lamps might be modeled of gold and set with precious stones, while those of the peasant were of rudely modeled clay; but each must have evoked, along with its dim light, an unwholesome modicum of smoke and malodor.

  23. Whenever I had any of this unwholesome food I divided it with those about me.

  24. On the stairways there was a very unwholesome smell of oil; all the windows, above and below, had been grated, and boards adjusted, so as to make it impossible to throw letters out.

  25. The original may be found here as well as in France, and is, in truth, the creation of the unwholesome time in which we live rather than of any particular city or state.

  26. There is every reason for this unwholesome product.

  27. That so much of hopeful humanity is found in these unwholesome and congested wards proves the quality worth saving and elevating.

  28. All this is undemocratic and unwholesome in the highest degree.

  29. This dish, although very unwholesome and indigestible, is nevertheless a great favourite, and eaten by many persons.

  30. This arises from its injuriously affecting the atmosphere; thus rendering the air we breathe unwholesome and deleterious.

  31. A poor thin yeast produces an imperfect fermentation, the result being a heavy unwholesome loaf.

  32. This leaves the laundry free from unwholesome vapour.

  33. The hard acid kinds are unwholesome if eaten raw; but by the process of cooking, a great deal of this acid is decomposed and converted into sugar.

  34. Pork should be very thoroughly cooked, but not dry; and be careful never to send it to table the least underdone, as nothing is more unwholesome and disagreeable than underdressed white meats.

  35. This is morbid and unwholesome talk which can do no human being any good to utter, or listen to.

  36. If in consequence we distrust every person we meet, we create an unwholesome and unfortunate atmosphere about ourselves, which will bring to us the unworthy and deceitful.

  37. The tone of them is that of the unwholesome fiction of his time, in which the "seducer" is a prominent and recognized character in social life, and female virtue is the frail sport of opportunity.

  38. Increased number of cases for the doctor followed want of sufficient food and the eating of cheap, unwholesome food.

  39. Not until after the murder of its owner and builder, old Johanna Rank, was there an explanation offered for the existence of a home in such an unwholesome locality.

  40. If they felt any uneasiness as to the possibility of unwholesome revelations in connection with her birth, they purposely blindfolded themselves and indulged in the game of consequences.

  41. It should be conceded, however, that his work cannot appeal to everyone; and that many who have the highest perception of the beautiful see only the repulsive and unwholesome in the troubled, exotic expression of his genius.

  42. There is nothing unwholesome or suggestive about the "Lysistrata" designs: they are as as frank, free, and outspoken as the text.

  43. It is defamation to use the word "home" in connection with the unwholesome shanty in the pest-ridden district where the remnant of the children's lives not lived in the mill is passed.

  44. Fresh air, insolent with purity, cleanness, unusedness, smiting nostrils, sought lungs filled too long with unwholesome atmosphere.

  45. According to others, he was suffocated in his sleep by the vapor of charcoal, which extracted from the walls of the apartment the unwholesome moisture of the fresh plaster.

  46. My uncle pooh-poohed the unwholesome state of the office, for two reasons which certainly had some weight.

  47. We find that in many houses the saleswomen work under unwholesome conditions; these comprise bad ventilation, unsanitary toilet arrangements, and an indifference to considerations of decency.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unwholesome" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bad; baneful; contaminated; destructive; diseased; foul; harmful; injurious; insalubrious; morbid; morbific; noisome; noxious; offensive; pathogenic; pathological; peaky; peccant; pestiferous; polluted; seamy; septic; tainted; unhealthful; unhealthy; unhygienic; unsanitary; unsound; unwholesome; virulent