Unhealthy meaning

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unhealthier unhealthiest
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Of a risky nature; dangerous.

An unhealthy predicament.

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Characterized by or symptomatic of disturbed mental health.

Took an unhealthy interest in violence and fires.

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Having or showing poor health; sickly; not well.
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Harmful to health; unwholesome.
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Harmful to morals or character.
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Dangerous or risky.

An unhealthy situation.

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Characterized by or symptomatic of disturbed mental health.

Took an unhealthy interest in violence and fires.

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The villagers lived in unhealthy surroundings.

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He was an unhealthy child.

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He liked unhealthy reading material.

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Characterized by disturbed mental health.

He had an unhealthy interest in fire.

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Harmful to character or morality; corruptive.

Unhealthy reading material.

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Unhealthy 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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