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  • adjective Not salutary.

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un- +‎ salutary

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Examples

  • Ignorance itself has an unsalutary name; it indicates a lack of knowledge, but in this context it also refers to a twisted consciousness that mistakes the facts, and whatever is derived from it is miserable.

    Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009

  • Ignorance itself has an unsalutary name; it indicates a lack of knowledge, but in this context it also refers to a twisted consciousness that mistakes the facts, and whatever is derived from it is miserable.

    Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009

  • Armstrong (1968) and Pitcher (1970) argued convincingly that pains are representational and have intentional objects, real or inexistent as usual, which objects are unsalutary conditions of body parts; pain is a kind of proprioception.

    Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006

  • If, however, we permit him to remain with his tubercular mother, to nurse her milk, to live in what necessarily is an unhygienic and unsalutary environment -- the presence of the consumptive mother renders it so -- the probability is that the tendency to disease, which in his case is the tendency to weak lungs, will materialize, because of his weak resistance, poor nourishment, and unfavorable surroundings.

    The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

  • But the introduction of the Jesuits brought an unsalutary change.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

  • And to do this, it may be, throws no unsalutary sidelight upon the still-existent problem: at what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • And to do this, it may be, throws no unsalutary sidelight upon the still-existent problem: at what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?

    The Certain Hour 1909

  • The most they will admit against money is that the possession of much of it tends to destroy that judicial calm necessary to a wise choice of recreations; to incline the possessor, perhaps, toward those that are unsalutary.

    The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • The co-ordinate primacy, (as I must needs call it.,) which, within the last few years, has been claimed for Codex B and Codex #, threatens to grow into a species of tyranny, -- from which I venture to predict there will come in the end an unreasonable and unsalutary recoil.

    The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871

  • The co-ordinate primacy, (as I must needs call it,) which, within the last few years, has been claimed for Codex B and Codex א, threatens to grow into a species of tyranny, — from which I venture to predict there will come in the end an unreasonable and unsalutary recoil.

    The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark John William Burgon 1850

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