Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being unhealthy, in any sense.
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- noun The state of being
unhealthy .
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- noun a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain
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Examples
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Their unhealthiness is their soundness, and is what carries conviction.
Simone Weil Sontag, Susan 1963
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More convenient Fernando Po certainly was, but not more healthy, and ever since 1827 it has been accumulating for itself an evil reputation for unhealthiness which is only languishing just at present because there is an interval between its epidemics — fever in Fernando Po, even more than on the mainland, having periodic outbursts of a more serious type than the normal intermittent and remittent of the Coast.
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More convenient Fernando Po certainly was, but not more healthy, and ever since 1827 it has been accumulating for itself an evil reputation for unhealthiness which is only languishing just at present because there is an interval between its epidemics -- fever in
Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881
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"unhealthiness" to Anzac Beach, but it is quite possible that such places do exist.
Letters from France 1923
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Overweight people beginning to get more active get the aches, pains, a heightened sense of their excess weight and unhealthiness.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Weighty Problems in Oversized Young Athletes? 2009
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It tries to support unhealthiness, empty technology for technology, not for people.
Top 8 Electrolux Design Lab 09 finalists | Electrolux Design Lab 2010 2010
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We can no longer be a nation that makes a profit off of the unhealthiness of its citizens.
Christopher Herz: Additions to the State of the Union Christopher Herz 2011
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This does not mean that we lose passion orperseverance, but the in the fight to be "right" or even inresponseto others unhealthiness, we must not lower our view of the other to enemy,villainor manifestation of evil.
Bruce Reyes-Chow: My Thoughts On The Fellowship And The Evangelical Covenant Order Of Presbyterians Bruce Reyes-Chow 2012
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It's not an issue really about what his sexual preference may have been. .what he saw at home close-up just wasn't very healthy, and unhealthiness like that will mess a person up whether they're Straight or Gay.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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It's not an issue really about what his sexual preference may have been. .what he saw at home close-up just wasn't very healthy, and unhealthiness like that will mess a person up whether they're Straight or Gay.
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