How To Use Unwholesome In A Sentence
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What Greek teaching reached their minds was almost wholly that of the _ludi scenici_; and I must now say a word in conclusion about this unwholesome influence -- unwholesome, that is, so far as it affected the old religious ideas.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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There's something unwholesomely endearing here, and her portrayal is rather like the sound of nails on a chalkboard come to life.
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The crusade against 'hyphenates' will only inflame the partial patriotism of trans-nationals, and cause them to assert their European traditions in strident and unwholesome ways.
Trans-national America
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My desire to be rich was an insane, unwholesome, oppressive desire.
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The same author comments that quail were not eaten much in classical times, apparently because they were thought to be unwholesome because of eating poisonous plants such as hellebore.
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The strongest physical characteristics may be ruined if the surroundings are unwholesome and unsanitary.
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For one thing, just as the protagonists are fetishistically attached to cinematic images, Isabelle and Theo are no less unwholesomely attached to one another, and this very attachment is yet another attachment to an image.
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He couldn't even hear faint sounds from the next apartment without his imagination putting together some unwholesome scene of matching action.
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Now, in 2004, WC has associated itself with a movie that includes such "unwholesome" activities as; pot smoking, sex, and sexual perversion …Such dissonance is not lost on the company.
August 2004
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Zola borrowed more, but mainly the unwholesome parts, truncating these further to suit his theory of the novel as a slice of life seen through a temperament, and travestying in the Rougon-Macquart scheme, with its burden of heredity and physiological blemish, Balzac's cumbrous and plausible doctrine of the _Comedy_.
Balzac
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And if so, that suggests to me that there's something kind of unwholesome, perhaps, at work in all of this.
CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2003
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I have a confession to make: I have recently been engaged in the unwholesome and despicable act of spying.
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We found the latter lounging about the unwholesome streets; and the former seated at their thresholds, engaged in those pursuits of the chase which the use of a fine-tooth comb would undignify to mere slaughter.
Venetian Life
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The curd which is half curdled has been considered as a totally unwholesome food item.
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The footrace is the scene of some rather unwholesome tactics, shall we say.
Felix hominum
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It hath been a great endangering to the health of some plantations, that they have built along the sea and rivers, in marish and unwholesome grounds.
The Essays
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It was doubtless in order to relieve this saccharine and "mellisonant" monotony that he thought fit to intersperse these interminable droppings of natural or artificial perfume with others of the rankest and most intolerable odour: but a diet of alternate sweetmeats and emetics is for the average of eaters and drinkers no less unpalatable than unwholesome.
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2
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Or, if the sewer pipes in the walls of the house, or in the ground under the cellar, are not properly trapped and guarded, _sewer gas_ may escape into the house from them, and this also is most unwholesome, and even dangerous.
A Handbook of Health
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The situation is damp and unwholesome, and the water so bad, that I should suppose a long continuance here of such a number of prisoners must be productive of endemical disorders.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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In 1883, a social reformer complained that ‘the cities grow, unwholesomely crowding people together till they are packed in tiers, family above family, so are they [also] unwholesomely separated in the country.’
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The fish were unwholesome and old.
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unwholesome habits like smoking
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Unlike the professional legislators in Washington, they are also more likely to hold regular jobs and feel the bite of any unwholesome laws they enact.
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Nathan and Carrie are the future king and queen of the prom, an unwholesomely attractive couple who take any issue, from jealousy to unwanted pregnancy, with good-natured partying aplomb.
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The throat, exposed as it is to unwholesome and overheated air, irritating dust of the street, factories, and workshops, is often inflamed, resulting in that common ailment, _sore throat_.
A Practical Physiology
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Go to, then: we'll use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know turtles from jays.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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If the Police didn't think Skolnick looked suspicious, she thought, Markets would surely tag him as unwholesome.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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unwholesome food
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‘I was drawn to the extremity in a slightly unwholesome way,’ she says.
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The crusade against 'hyphenates' will only inflame the partial patriotism of trans-nationals, and cause them to assert their European traditions in strident and unwholesome ways.
Trans-national America
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It could be recalled that the apex bank had last year August embarked on banking reforms that swept some new and old generation banks off their feet and had their Chief Executive officers fired over what it described as unwholesome banking practices bordering on alleged illegal acquisition of loans, shares and procedures.
Vanguard
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Besides that the marshiness and fogginess of this island were still found unwholesome to English bodies.
Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
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Meditation simply means cultivating a wholesome and sane habit, which becomes an antidote for the unwholesome, confused, destructive habits that we have developed.
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The triangle -- or quadrangle, if one includes your aunt -- may have been harmless but it could well have been most unwholesome.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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The same author comments that quail were not eaten much in classical times, apparently because they were thought to be unwholesome because of eating poisonous plants such as hellebore.
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Most unwisely we had neglected to take a meal before starting, not expecting the district to be so plashy and unwholesome as it proved to be.
Byeways in Palestine
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His sister said the old residence on Mulberry Street was drafty and the neighborhood unwholesome.
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By this theory, we are at the Pavlovian mercy of the food industry, which spends nearly $10 billion a year advertising unwholesome junk food and fast food.
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Unwholesome sandflats waited to suck his treading soles, breathing upward sewage breath.
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She had been a soldier's wife, and had seen the world; infirmity, induced by fevers caught in unwholesome quarters, had come on her before its time, and she seldom moved from her little cot.
II.8
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Ego - delusion is the foremost of the unwholesome kamma of old and accompanies beings incessantly.
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But, O Kalams, when you know for yourselvesthat certain things are unwholesome (akusala) and wrong, and bad, then give them up ...
Boors versus Buddhists
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It may be too much to ask film makers to tell the most complete, unwholesome aspects of a story.
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The coalyard, if not particularly pleasant, was not unwholesome; there was sunshine in every room, and finally, the rent was eighteen dollars.
Martie, the Unconquered
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But he was also hungry , with a gnawing , unwholesome kind of hunger.
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The legumin contained in this vegetable is very light and sustaining, but it is apt to form unwholesome combinations with any earthy salts taken in other articles of food, or in the water used in cooking; therefore Lemon juice or vinegar is a desirable addition to Lentils at table.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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But he was also hungry , with a gnawing , unwholesome kind of hunger.
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I watch her leap from rock to earth, my muscles trembling, sated in some unwholesome way.
MOON PASSAGE
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What this unwholesome alliance produced at the Javits Center was an unrestrained wallow in sentimentality and anti-development attitudes.
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Go to, then: well use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpion; well teach him to know turtles from jays.
Act III. Scene III. The Merry Wives of Windsor
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Given the overall deftness of direction and performance, one expects Irma Vep to be a highlight of the season - good, unwholesome larky fun.
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Liberty — their liberty; an earth-born creature, nursed in the black mud of the Bastile moats and dungeons, and necessarily betraying many evidences of its unwholesome bringing-up — but the Inquisition used it in the name of Heaven.
Pictures from Italy
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Some discommend moated houses, as unwholesome; so Camden saith of [3155] Ew-elme, that it was therefore unfrequented, ob stagni vicini halitus, and all such places as be near lakes or rivers.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Compassion is the desire that living beings be free of suffering and its causes, such as unwholesome actions.
Dharma Quote from Snow Lion Publications
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The triangle -- or quadrangle, if one includes your aunt -- may have been harmless but it could well have been most unwholesome.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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And then, smoking is an unwholesome lifestyle and causes a variety of diseases.
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Several faculty members began to suspect there was something unwholesome about his relationship with Keith.
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Some discommend moated houses, as unwholesome; so Camden saith of [3155] Ew-elme, that it was therefore unfrequented, ob stagni vicini halitus, and all such places as be near lakes or rivers.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The will or desire to act can be wholesome at one moment and unwholesome at another moment.
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The air in summer is reckoned unwholesome by the exhalations arising from stagnant water in the neighbourhood of the city, which stands in the midst of a fertile plain, low and marshy: yet these marshes have been considerably drained, and the air is much meliorated.
Travels through France and Italy
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They are often given irregular, inadequate and unwholesome food supplies, and often no money for fuel, and are expected to dish up something six days a week and wipe out the 50 per cent malnutrition among children.
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In the unwholesome pool, or ever – stagnant lake. antistrophe 2
Sophocles : Philoctetes
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Like a lot of lefties spooked by recent unwholesome political successes by the American right, I'm angry and feeling rhetorically confrontational these days, but violence is not the way to express it.
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If the Police didn't think Skolnick looked suspicious, she thought, Markets would surely tag him as unwholesome.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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Go to, then; we'll use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know turtles from jays.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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I watch her leap from rock to earth, my muscles trembling, sated in some unwholesome way.
MOON PASSAGE
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Her first feature, La Ciénaga, or The Swamp, exuded a fetid, toxic atmosphere: a film on the verge of swooning, overcome by its own unwholesomely sensual fumes.
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But 't is called unwholesome to get a house full o 'damp in the fall o' the year; 't will freeze an 'thaw in the walls all winter.
A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
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Nevertheless, to kill any living being is an unwholesome thing to do.
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Thank you for such a smart dissection of an article like this, which I agree contributes to the kind of unwholesome blogosphere folderol that I try to avoid on my own blog.
How to Irritate and Annoy People in the Name of Blogging « Whatever
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Out of the unwholesome cauldron of junk science, they have conjured up lawsuits over something called ‘toxic mold.’
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The fish were unwholesome and old.
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Unwholesome odors rolled out of the storefronts: rancid oil and mouldy cheese, and fish long absent from the sea.
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Most people have a pretty good idea of what constitutes a healthy lifestyle, and yet we are all guilty of making the same unwholesome choices.
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Whether you like it for not, Harry Potter is here to stay, and although parents may have a few concerns that it is unwholesome to make magic and spells fashionable, at least they know where their kids are, and what they are doing.
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This disease -- sometimes called nephritis -- occurs occasionally in cattle in consequence of their eating bad or unwholesome food, or of the abuse of diuretics, etc.
Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
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Go to, then: we’ll use this unwholesome humidity, this gross watery pumpion; we’ll teach him to know turtles from jays.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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There is nothing unwholesome about excelling or about making a profit.
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Perhaps they have - although, as Sierra Leone showed this year, the arms trade is still its secretive, unwholesome self - but if lessons have been digested can they ever answer the conundrum posed by risk-aversion?
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A flaccid, unwholesome-looking hand was raised slowly, in a kind of deprecatory gesture; then allowed to fall again upon the belly where it lay, with the five fingers, round and chalky-white, extended like the rays of a starfish.
South Wind
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The health of the community and of the live stock also received attention: in 1583 one Pattynson was fined 1s. for allowing a 'scabbed' horse to go on the common; dead cattle were to be buried the day after death, and all unwholesome meat was to be buried.
A Short History of English Agriculture
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The doctor returned to the captain, and said, "that there was no doubt but that the pig was measly, which was a complaint very frequent on board ships, particularly in hot climates, where all pork became _measly_ -- one great reason for its there proving so unwholesome.
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
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Making ourselves miserable by these cravings and wishes is the unwholesome pattern of envy.
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If people aren't careful, there is a temptation to substitute loving relationships for something which is unwholesome.
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Every kind of domestic suffering that is bred in poverty, illness, banishment, sorrow, and long travel in bad weather, was crammed into the little space; and yet was there infinitely less of complaint and querulousness, and infinitely more of mutual assistance and general kindness to be found in that unwholesome ark, than in many brilliant ballrooms.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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The main reason for all these unwholesome events and relations have been the dispute over Kashmir problem, which has remained oscillating for this whole time between them.
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Their teacher-pupil relationship has the air of someone imparting unwholesome, faintly dangerous but thrillingly forbidden truths: a course in deflowerment in which the pupil must first be deflowered.
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He taught his loyal subjects saying, "People of Benares wholesomeness begins with giving up the five unwholesome actions once and for all.
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The Phasis itself is the most stagnant of all rivers, and runs the smoothest; all the fruits which spring there are unwholesome, feeble and imperfect growth, owing to the redundance of water, and on this account they do not ripen, for much vapor from the waters overspreads the country.
On Airs, Waters, And Places
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Meanwhile, the Jos branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has described as unwholesome, unconstitutional and parochial, the resolution of the Federal House of Representatives which directed the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to redeploy corps members posted to Plateau State to other states.
Thisday Online
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_was_ found out at once, and which drew a creditable and not in the least Tartuffian protest from Warburton, is a far more serious matter -- not so much because of the licence in subject as because of the unwholesome and sniggering tone.
The English Novel
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He is simple in his habits, generous and kind, obedient to those who are over him either in civil or religious matters; he is a quiet citizen; he is very fond of a little "boodle" (when he can get it), and it is looked upon as one of his virtues which he sometimes pursues to an unwholesome extent; he is called up and rebuked for it, goes away and soon begins to do it again.
Canada from East to West
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This, though a plentiful, and by no means unwholesome fare for growing boys, was not what he had been accustomed to, and feeling far too heavy and unwell after it to venture upon an encounter with the Doctor, he wandered slow and melancholy round the bare gravelled playground during the half-hour after dinner devoted to the inevitable "chevy," until the
Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
