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Example sentences for "unhealthy"

Lexicographically close words:
unhatched; unhealed; unhealthful; unhealthfulness; unhealthiness; unheard; unheated; unheeded; unheedful; unheeding
  1. With a diseased liver we have perverted action which possibly accounts for impure and unhealthy deposits in the nasal passage and other parts of the body in their own peculiar form.

  2. At this time I will stop defining the several and varied uses of the five kinds of nerves, and begin to account for growths and other variations, from the healthy to the unhealthy conditions of man.

  3. This being a known fact, we have only to use reason to know that an unhealthy condition of the diaphragm is bound to be followed by many diseases.

  4. The whole system is loaded with a confused mass of blood, that is mixed with much or little unhealthy substances, that should have been kept washed out by lymph.

  5. But it is very unhealthy in the mines underground, is it not?

  6. It is built in a very unhealthy position, the country round being exceedingly low and marshy.

  7. Now, although characteristic cases of scurvy are as a rule to be met with chiefly in sailors, yet there is no doubt that an insufficiency of the preceding in the dietary brings about an unhealthy condition of the system.

  8. As a rule their skin presents evidences of the need of proper diet, for it looks unhealthy and is often covered with boils.

  9. It enjoys, too, in a high degree, the power of counteracting the unhealthy state found to be induced by too close a restriction to dried and salted provisions.

  10. Judæa was in a state of excitement about him--that excitement had unhealthy elements, and must not be fanned.

  11. There is a self-care and a self-pity, a laziness and conceit of incapacity, which are as unhealing for the body as they are unhealthy in the mind, corrupting all dignity and destroying all sympathy.

  12. This abnormal condition of the nervous system is, to a certain extent, dependent on natural organic structure, aided materially by an unhealthy exercise of the imaginative faculty.

  13. A man may allow his imagination to dwell upon an idea until it acquires an unhealthy ascendency over the intellect, and in this way a person may commit suicide from an habitual belief in the justifiableness of the act.

  14. A system of inspection which would not only cause the demolition of unhealthy houses, but prevent unhealthy houses being erected.

  15. These are a few of the dangerous and unhealthy occupations by which the poor live, and I have enumerated those largely practised by children.

  16. Passengers who crossed the Isthmus of Panama disembarked at Chagres, a port so unhealthy that policies of life insurance contained a clause to the effect that if the insured remained there more than one night, his policy would be void.

  17. When family life does not involve healthy friendship with other families, it is likely to be injured by unhealthy if well-meaning friendships with wanderers.

  18. Or if the kidneys are weak, there is an increased secretion and discharge from them, to an unhealthy and injurious extent.

  19. This is unhealthy for the family near and also for the animal.

  20. For want of experience on the part of the officers, surgeons, nurses, and men, in the management of such establishments, they are sometimes in very bad and unhealthy condition.

  21. At Balaklava, they built their huts on a very unhealthy site.

  22. Modern opinion has found it necessary greatly to refine upon these broad generalisations of the truth, and the first clear division that we make to-day in questions of wages, is that between a healthy and unhealthy condition of bargaining.

  23. With my method of reducing all of the unhealthy fatty tissue will be gotten rid of before the remaining firm muscular tissue will be distributed about the body.

  24. The colored granules are thus gradually replaced and the skin assumes a beautiful clearness and purity of appearance, which transcends immeasurably the unhealthy hue that follows the frequent employment of the various cosmetics.

  25. If secretion and excretion are not normally performed, the blood becomes poisoned by the absorption of unhealthy "matter" from the sore, and various constitutional disturbances occur.

  26. One is oiled and gently introduced into the track every two or three days, and by its solution the unhealthy tissues which line the track are removed.

  27. The most noticeable symptom is the tendency to frequent and unhealthy discharges from the intestines.

  28. The formation of gall-stones is undoubtedly due to an unhealthy condition of the bile.

  29. Both these results are unhealthy and injurious.

  30. Trees growing a little distance from the house, however, obstruct the transmission of unhealthy vapors arising beyond them.

  31. The surgeon can readily distinguish between healthy and unhealthy bone by the use of a probe.

  32. Porto Praya is a miserable town, built on a most unhealthy spot, there being an extensive marsh behind it, which, from its miasma, creates a great mortality among the inhabitants.

  33. It must not be forgotten that I did not wish to write a history of literature, nor to indulge in current æsthetic criticism, but to demonstrate the unhealthy mental condition of the imitators of fashionable literary tendencies.

  34. In the success of unhealthy tendencies in art and literature, no quality of their authors has so large and determining a share as their sexual psychopathy.

  35. The unhealthy affection here set forth bears Fletcher's stamp upon it, and is made particularly unpleasant by the use Emilia makes of the word "innocent.

  36. The chief factors in producing this acquired degeneration are complex, such as overwork, unhealthy dwellings, precocious sexual habits, and early alcoholism.

  37. Officers commanding columns will be held responsible that the troops are not kept in unhealthy districts, and that, when a locality has proved itself unhealthy, the troops are removed at the earliest possible opportunity.

  38. The people became mean and unhealthy in mind and body and morals, preserving nothing except the cruelty of their forefathers.

  39. Yes, it's an unhealthy spot, according to all accounts.

  40. Neither must we omit from the ranks of unhealthy town occupations the squalid race of clerks, whose monotonous occupation and posture perpetually fixed in the form of a Z, renders them a very unhealthy class of men.

  41. The milliners, especially of London, are nearly as unhealthy as the tailors.

  42. Until the relative value of life and of sickness among the working classes is thoroughly understood and acted upon, as regards the payments of members, it is clear that the healthy trades must be sacrificed to the unhealthy ones.

  43. The healthy country artisan is thus made to pay for the unhealthy town mechanic.

  44. Moreover, the situation of this fort is so unhealthy that the garrison leave it during the summer.

  45. The situation here must be an unhealthy one, for not only was I annoyed during the night with head-ache and fever, but Messrs.

  46. If it were not so warm and unhealthy during the summer, a residence here would be delightful.

  47. Nothing interrupted the solemn silence, except the chattering of the boatmen's teeth, who are often severely affected in this unhealthy part of the country, with the intermittent fever.

  48. They make much money; but they suffer also severely in consequence of the unhealthy climate, especially from fevers, which not unfrequently prove fatal.

  49. Such an establishment is extremely necessary for such a place as Louisville, which is very unhealthy in summer.

  50. They are fixed there by poor people, who seek to acquire property in this unhealthy district.

  51. The excitement is of an unhealthy kind, and whether one is winning or losing, it is difficult to break off when a suitable hour arrives.

  52. There is no doubt that a purely sensational novel is a powerful instrument for the loss of time, and it engenders an unhealthy craving for excitement of an undesirable type.

  53. Otherwise I cannot suggest any reason unless he wishes to form a base in this unhealthy Portuguese territory since his Sumatran refuge is closed to him.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unhealthy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bad; baneful; black; chancy; contaminated; dangerous; debilitated; defective; degenerate; delicate; depraved; diseased; doubtful; drained; dubious; enervated; evil; exhausted; failing; feeble; foul; frail; hairy; harmful; hazardous; ill; improper; inauspicious; indisposed; inexpedient; infamous; inferior; infirm; injurious; insalubrious; insecure; invalid; languishing; malevolent; miscreant; morbid; morbific; moribund; noisome; noxious; pale; pathogenic; pathological; peaked; peaky; peccant; perilous; perverse; pestiferous; polluted; putrid; reduced; risky; rocky; rotten; septic; shaky; sick; sickly; sinful; sinister; tainted; tottery; treacherous; uncertain; unhealthful; unhealthy; unhygienic; unpredictable; unreliable; unsanitary; unskillful; unsound; unstable; unsteady; unsure; untoward; untrustworthy; unwholesome; valetudinarian; vicious; virulent; weakened; weakly; wicked; wrong