unwholesome

comparative more unwholesome · superlative most unwholesome

1. Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthful.

   unwholesome air, or food

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   Caliban: As wicked dewe, as ere my mother bruſh'd / With Rauens feather from vnwholeſome Fen / Drop on you both : A Southweſt blow on yee, / And bliſter you all ore.

   1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4

   Alas! he mastered not his destiny: I have said before, his ashes are in yonder urn. A few unwholesome dews on a summer night were mightier than all his science.

   1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 17

2. Not sound; tainted; defective.

   There was something indefinably unwholesome about him. Something lean and snakelike.

   2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 184

3. Indicating unsound health; characteristic of or suggesting an unsound condition, physical or mental; repulsive; offensive.