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Another word for unhealthy

Adjective

  1. Not sustaining or promoting health

    2. See also:

    health

  2. Morally detrimental

    3. See also:

    right

  3. Utterly reprehensible in nature or behavior

    4. See also:

    good

    clean

  4. Susceptible to or marked by preoccupation with unwholesome matters

    5. See also:

    good

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Sentence Examples

  • The climate is for the most part temperate and healthy, but it is hot and unhealthy on the coast.

  • The climate is in general very hot and unhealthy, the rainfall being very heavy.

  • Its large eyes appeared young and unhealthy, almost dropsical.

  • Everywhere it is most unhealthy, and inhabited only by tribes who seem proof against malaria.

  • The site is so unhealthy that even the Circassians who settled there twenty years ago have almost all died off or emigrated.

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