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  • Some Englishmen who did not fancy potatoes formed a Society for the Prevention of Unwholesome Diet.

    et patati et patata - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers;

    The Rape of Lucrece 2004

  • Unwholesome indignation dyes my cheeks, and that is almost as bad as indigestion.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Unwholesome, green, and sickly ... but when he saw his reflection in the orb, he saw himself not as unwholesome, not as one whose shadow-sculpted face most resembled a skull.

    Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

  • Unwholesome waves of power began to flow through the prism.

    Orchid Jayne Castle 1998

  • Unwholesome waves of power began to flow through the prism.

    Orchid Jayne Castle 1998

  • Unwholesome, morbid, self-centered thought is driven out.

    Civics and Health William H. Allen

  • Unwholesome, irritating food or swill containing soap or washing powder have a tendency to derange the process of digestion.

    The Veterinarian Charles James Korinek

  • Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers; 870

    The Rape of Lucrece 1914

  • Unwholesome sandflats waited to suck his treading soles, breathing upward sewage breath, a pocket of seaweed smouldered in seafire under a midden of man's ashes.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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