Adjective : unhealthful food. From Dictionary.com.
Their prohibition is, we believe, founded on the intrinsic unhealthfulness of the thing itself. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Negritos of Zambales] Reference
Or did there lurk in her the insidious unhealthfulness of unwomanliness?. From Wordnik.com. [Adventure] Reference
Many of them fall sick from the great sufferings that they undergo, because of the unhealthfulness of this country, both in food and climate, and from other causes. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
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!. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters]
It should be taken for granted that reënforcements be sent each year to maintain this number; for, because of the unhealthfulness of this country, many are constantly dying. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Our women decorate themselves, too, with ribbons, as do your men, and have their fashion-books; their dresses far excelling in absurd ugliness and unhealthfulness any thing worn by your men. From Wordnik.com. [Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It?] Reference
Its unhealthfulness is a factor of prime importance in what may be called the general scheme of the country, and has had, as we shall presently see, the most important historical consequences. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of South Africa] Reference
She was used to his having those fits of the blues that are a part of the nervous, morbidly sensitive nature and in the unhealthfulness of an irregular and dissipated life recur at brief intervals. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
It had, however, about that time received sudden and considerable accessions from the dissolution of the Shaker Society in Indiana, which left that state on account of the unhealthfulness of the country, and whose members were divided among the. From Wordnik.com. [The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation] Reference
One certainly would expect to hear at least some word of condemnation of this fashion, the unhealthfulness of which has been too frequently demonstrated by those addicted to it, to require the dictum of a learned doctor either for or against it. From Wordnik.com. [Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.] Reference
Yet some, upon experience, complain of the unhealthfulness of all those places on either side of the Manhatoes, as being flat and low lands, and subject to agues in the summer, which is no small discouragement to them that prize health as they should. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
It has to do with the healthfulness/unhealthfulness of the thing’s diet. From Wordnik.com. [Let’s Not Discuss Dick Cheney’s Weight] Reference
(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!. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
The city is famous for the unhealthfulness of its denizens’ typical diet, so much so that one would have been, according to this report, better off dining there six centuries ago. From Wordnik.com. [Food and Drink] Reference
1594, not as a new foundation, but as the continuation of a secular college at Pont - à-Mousson in Lorraine, which, owing to the unhealthfulness of the site, had to seek a new home. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
This Province lying so near Virginia, and yet more Southward, enjoys the fertility and advantages thereof; and yet is so far distant, as to be freed from the inconstancy of the Weather, which is a great cause of the unhealthfulness thereof; also, being in the latitude of the Bermudas may expect the like healthfulness which it hath hitherto enjoyed, and doubtless there is no Plantation that ever the English went upon, in all respects so good as this: for though Bermudas be wonderful healthy and fruitful, yet is it but a prison to the inhabitants, who are much straitened for want of room, and therefore many of them are come to Carolina, and more intend to follow. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
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