Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unhealthful; unwholesomeness; insalubriousness.
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- noun The state or quality of being
unhealthful .
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- noun the quality of promoting poor health
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or did there lurk in her the insidious unhealthfulness of unwomanliness?
Chapter 9 2010
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As soon as my poor dwelling (of which I have a horror now) is emptied and cleaned, I shall return there; then I shall go doubtless to Paris, despite its unhealthfulness!
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Cramped space and foul air had given the submarine service a reputation for unhealthfulness as well as danger, and only recently had crews been permitted to sleep on board in port.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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The poverty of the whole establishment, man and wife, and children, and stock, their uncleanliness and unhealthfulness, are but the just results of such a mode of living.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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No effort was left untried, though exercised with the greatest delicacy to bring the young heathen's mind to a proper state of its former unhealthfulness, of its present pressing needs.
Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee
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Governments and of humanity itself to better the condition of men, who, hidden thus from society, will in time become extinct, victims of their customs, of the unhealthfulness of the rugged places where they live, and of our negligence in helping them; and desirous of making them useful, that some day, influenced by the benefits of social life, they may enter the consoling pale of our
Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed
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Their prohibition is, we believe, founded on the intrinsic unhealthfulness of the thing itself.
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In 1623 a certain Nathaniel Butler, who had been at one time governor of the Bermuda Islands, testified to the unhealthfulness of the colony.
Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker 1922
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As soon as my poor dwelling (of which I have a horror now) is emptied and cleaned, I shall return there; then I shall go doubtless to Paris, despite its unhealthfulness!
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921
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There were other places of extreme unhealthfulness where our men had fought their way up to the Hindenburg line, or, as the Germans called it, the Siegfried line.
Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919
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