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Unhealthful   /ənhˈɛlθfəl/   Listen
Unhealthful

adjective
1.
Not sanitary or healthful.  Synonyms: insanitary, unsanitary.  "Grim and unsanitary conditions"
2.
Detrimental to good health.  "Unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint"
3.
Detrimental to health.  Synonyms: insalubrious, unhealthy.



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"Unhealthful" Quotes from Famous Books



... Virginia southward were different. Here was an unlimited supply of fertile lands which lent themselves readily to the unskillful and exhausting methods of slave labor. Here too was a warm climate congenial to the Negro, though enervating and often unhealthful for the white. The staples, such as the sugar cane, rice and later the cotton plant, were such as the unscientific slave labor might easily cultivate. All the conditions of profitable slave labor were present, namely, possibilities ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various


Words linked to "Unhealthful" :   nonmedicinal, unmedicinal, disabling, unhygienic, unmedicative, unmedical, healthful, infective, cytopathogenic, unwholesome, septic, infected, morbific, toxic, incapacitating, crippling, pathogenic, sanitary


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