unwholesomely

Example Sentences

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“He considered both theater and novels a foolish waste of time and recoiled from all games of chance, believing that they unwholesomely excited the mind.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2020

The breakfast muffins my fellow participants and I were given were an off-putting shade of indigo, unwholesomely oily and had to be washed down within 10 minutes with yucky-flavoured milk.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2019

They yawned, stretched, and for a long time an involuntary expression of wearisomeness and aversion did not leave their faces, pale from sleeplessness, unwholesomely glossy.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

It is upon the things they are never allowed to mention that children brood unwholesomely.

From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah

The journey and the outward-bound vision are the signs of an active mind stirring wholesomely or unwholesomely as the case may be.

From My War Experiences in Two Continents by Salmon, Betty Keays-Young