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Unhealthful   /ənhˈɛlθfəl/   Listen
Unhealthful

adjective
1.
Not sanitary or healthful.  Synonyms: insanitary, unsanitary.  "Grim and unsanitary conditions"
2.
Detrimental to good health.  "Unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint"
3.
Detrimental to health.  Synonyms: insalubrious, unhealthy.



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"Unhealthful" Quotes from Famous Books



... reunions—the meal of society. Composed of a few light tasteful dishes, accompanied by other indulgences, according to taste or inclination, and followed by coffee, it would be a cheerful and not necessarily unhealthful affair. As a meal to which to invite friends, being cheaper, it would allow of more society being indulged in than is compatible with the monstrous presentments of meat and drink which constitute the modern company dinner. It would be practically a revival ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 428 - Volume 17, New Series, March 13, 1852 • Various
... of reform. Many a rookery, officially abolished, will be found still tenanted, and yielding not one income, but two, one for the owner and another for the police. The property represented by enterprises paying low wages, working men for long hours or under unhealthful conditions, or employing children, is almost ripe for excommunication. Pillars of society and the church have already been seen tottering on account of revelations of working conditions in factories from which they receive dividends. Property "affected by a public use," that is, investments ...
— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various


Words linked to "Unhealthful" :   incapacitating, unmedical, septic, unsanitary, unmedicative, infective, healthful, crippling, unhygienic, pathogenic, cytopathogenic, sanitary, unwholesome, disabling, unmedicinal, insanitary, unhealthy, insalubrious, unhealthfulness, morbific, infected, nonmedicinal, toxic


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