Adjective, : an unhealthy pallor. ,Night air was formerly considered unhealthy. ,unhealthy examples for the young. ,Asking questions in this neighborhood can be unhealthy. From Dictionary.com.
I know, I know, I am obsessing kind of unhealthily aren't I?. From Wordnik.com. [sheepdip Diary Entry] Reference
Mud-stained, surly and dripping unhealthily from every orifice. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
His face, always slender, seemed unhealthily gaunt despite his smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
Increasingly lonely, Diana became unhealthily dependent on Paul Burrell. From Wordnik.com. [Diana's Final Heartbreak] Reference
What should be harder if any choice must be harder is to eat unhealthily. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The FDA to Target Salt] Reference
His skin was unhealthily pale, his hair a nondescript brown and thinning. From Wordnik.com. [The Misenchanted Sword]
"But to answer your question seriously, she seems to be unhealthily thin.". From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]
What should be harder (if any choice must be harder) is to eat unhealthily. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The FDA to Target Salt] Reference
But did this look too much like the lifestyle of a boy unhealthily obsessed?. From Wordnik.com. [Delta Search]
But by day, as well, my imagination was unusually, and perhaps unhealthily, active. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
But that time in our house was so unbearably insular, so unhealthily introspective. From Wordnik.com. [not getting any younger] Reference
The prosecution will spin that as someone who is unhealthily obsessed with children. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2003] Reference
(This suggests that fundamentalism eventually became political, but unhealthily so.). From Wordnik.com. [Come On, You Call This a Manifesto?] Reference
This is seldoconsidered though by a media unhealthily addicted to criticisms of Israel. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Miss Temple decided that whoever laid out the house was unhealthily fixated with length. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
I have an unhealthily huge pile of books waiting to be read, almost three shelves worth. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: What SF/F/H Books Are On The Top of Your "To-Be-Read" Pile?] Reference
With all this overwhelming me, I've taken a habit of, and probably unhealthily, escapism. From Wordnik.com. [Read It!] Reference
My work has caused me to become perhaps unhealthily preoccupied with the problem of evil. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-01-01] Reference
And parts that are unhealthily relaxed are too positive, and should be made more negative. From Wordnik.com. [A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication] Reference
The camps also make refugees unhealthily dependent on humanitarian aid, the officials say. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
For one thing, many are unhealthily dependent on the faltering financial services industry. From Wordnik.com. [How Clubs Are Surviving Now] Reference
The gunslinger drowsed and awoke to see the man in black regarding him avidly, unhealthily. From Wordnik.com. [The Gunslinger]
Had he been a pig he would have been butchered long ago; he was going unhealthily to grease. From Wordnik.com. [Medal of Honor] Reference
Commercial banks are "not becoming unhealthily dependent on" central-bank injections, he said. From Wordnik.com. [ECB Affirms Possibility of Rate Increase] Reference
I don't care how they look, but it means that I'm getting an unhealthily little amount of sleep. From Wordnik.com. [blu94anjel Diary Entry] Reference
It wasn't the work, nor yet the excitement, for she lived on them, and not altogether unhealthily. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
The reasons why they are inactive or eat unhealthily may vary, and you see some of that in the show. From Wordnik.com. [Willow Bay: Full Court Press: Shaq Takes on Childhood Obesity] Reference
Testolina -- at that time much and unhealthily in Fra Battista's hire -- came breathless to the Via Stella. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
When I am tired, I also tend to make lousy food choices and will eat more unhealthily and then sleep worse the next night. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Trice: 5 tips for a better more beautiful you.] Reference
To be fair, this is always a subject that unhealthily obsesses interviewers, but actors 'responses are often highly amusing. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Gross: Year of the Queer: Hollywood and Homosexuality] Reference
A friend introduced me to it, and knowing my personality, I could see myself becoming totally, grossly, unhealthily addicted. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
At the sound the Prince paused, interrupting his words with an unhealthily gratified leer that revealed a bicuspid gone grey. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
And then hide again -- unhealthily wishing I could always sit in the house Daniel Plainview built -- alone -- drinking my milkshake. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Morgan: The Club in Your Face: The Social Network] Reference
Unlike the English hymn, which is intensely subjective -- in some cases unhealthily so -- the Greek hymn is in most cases objective. From Wordnik.com. [Hymns of the Greek Church Translated with Introduction and Notes] Reference
"But I've just written a song called 'Blood', which is about two people being unhealthily obsessed by each other, so apparently not.". From Wordnik.com. [Ellie Goulding's summer of love] Reference
Aunt Melissa, her sister, five years the senior, was tall and strong, but her paleness had long been unhealthily tinted with sallowness. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
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