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

His skin was so unwholesomely deficient in the natural tinge, that he looked as though if he were cut he would bleed white.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

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

It affected her a little unwholesomely, just as it would have made Ed, the hand, spasmodically guffaw to stand before the Venus de Milo—use and custom do much.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin