Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being unwholesome, in any sense; insalubrity; unhealthfulness: as, the unwholesomeness of a climate.
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- noun The state or quality of being
unwholesome .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
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Examples
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He never gave countenance to morbidness, self-pity, or any kind of unwholesomeness in grief.
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But at the time the collision between her iceberg-bright, wholesome exterior and the rumours of "unwholesomeness" served only to spark her audience's appetite.
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There is another purely economic explanation that works just as well, however - scandal is now seen as a means of promotion and is anxiously played up by a media environment that markets the worship of shoddy legitimized unwholesomeness okay - crack dealer, concealed carry charge, domestic violence; not okay - dog fighting, being gay in hiphop.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Sakai Noriko and “Japanese” Morality 2009
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The principal themes of sex and death were considered scandalous, and the book became a byword for unwholesomeness among mainstream critics of the day.
charles baudelaire | get drunk « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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I knew there was some unwholesomeness in there somewhere.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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He identified with the public tantrums, all the rude demands, the strokes of unwholesomeness that Bobby consistently delivered, the open show of bitterness when he lost.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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I've read about propaganda decrying the unholiness or unwholesomeness of others, and how that propaganda has fueled atrocities.
Jeff Dorchen: Holocaust, Shmolocaust - Just Fix the Car, I'll Wait in the Ashtray 2008
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I knew there was some unwholesomeness in there somewhere.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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He identified with the public tantrums, all the rude demands, the strokes of unwholesomeness that Bobby consistently delivered, the open show of bitterness when he lost.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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I knew there was some unwholesomeness in there somewhere.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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