unnutritious

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His complexion was dark and forester-like, seeming to show a poor, unnutritious diet.

From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred

Poor mothers, leaving sick children at home, stood for Page 276 hours in the streets, in the bitter cold, to obtain a ration of horseflesh, or a few ounces of this unnutritious bread.

From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth

Before him, he knew, lay at least fifteen miles of trail knee-deep with snow, and he had left but one small ration of unpalatable and unnutritious food.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

People not only dislike bread, but regard it as unnutritious.

From The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

In March, sugar could be obtained in only small quantities, six months later the unnutritious saccharine had almost completely replaced it.

From The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War by Curtin, D. Thomas