Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unwholesome manner; unhealthfully.

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  • adverb In an unwholesome manner.

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Examples

  • A Christian who says rape is due to irreligion and materialism (in the sensual meaning) says there is dissimilarity of rates of rape between Christian and nonchristian societies, or between churched and unchurched areas; that rape is motivated by sexual desire; that rape is higher in areas with more masturbation and pornography and unwholesomely dressed or improperly behaving women ..

    Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

  • With a constant psychological whiff of something unwholesomely and condescendingly sleazy.

    Bum and Bummer juliette 2008

  • With a constant psychological whiff of something unwholesomely and condescendingly sleazy.

    Archive 2008-12-01 juliette 2008

  • The saddest minority in a city emphasizing health and fitness are those who are unwholesomely shaped.

    Life On The Edge 2007

  • Journals, was a small young gentleman of very juvenile appearance, and unwholesomely pale in the face; partly, perhaps, from intense thought, but partly, there is no doubt, from the excessive use of tobacco, which he was at that moment chewing vigorously.

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • This “open warfare” alternated, it is true, with long sieges, less sportsmanlike phases, in which the contending hosts refused battle and squatted unwholesomely in excavations and behind walls, annoying each other by raids and attempts to storm and break through, until hunger, pestilence, the decay of discipline under boredom, or the exasperation of the surrounding population broke up the party.

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • His skin was so unwholesomely deficient in the natural tinge, that he looked as though, if he were cut, he would bleed white.

    Hard Times 2002

  • Looking back, the great taxonomists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries seem unwholesomely obsessed.

    WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999

  • A local schoolhouse in the heart of the four-thousand-acre camp was turned into a hospital, where the diseased were unwholesomely mingled with the wounded from Paoli, Brandywine, and Germantown.

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • A local schoolhouse in the heart of the four-thousand-acre camp was turned into a hospital, where the diseased were unwholesomely mingled with the wounded from Paoli, Brandywine, and Germantown.

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

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