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Recent Examples of unwholesome As for the place, its veneer of comfortable tourism doesn’t hide the air of something unwholesome, especially when female guests start randomly throwing up. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024 Less visibly, Manton operated a side business with a more unwholesome objective: cashing in on his status and power as a judge. Time, 25 July 2023 In celebration of her return, everyone from comedian Melissa McCarthy, who’s playing the conniving nemesis of King Triton, to film historians, are taking the opportunity to pay tribute to the legendary drag queen who inspired Ursula’s unwholesome ways: Divine. Elaina Patton, NBC News, 26 May 2023 This syndrome originally surfaced in 1926, when residents of Haverhill, Massachusetts drank unwholesome milk and suffered soaring temps, aching joints, and skin lesions ranging from flat, red spots to papules, pustules, and blisters—the same telltale features earlier linked to bites. Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2018 There was something indefinably unwholesome about him. Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 And in more than 250 episodes, little-sister character Dora Winifred Read was a blissfully unwholesome role model for little girls: smart, funny, and unlikable. Jenny Singer, Glamour, 23 Feb. 2022 The air around Brainerd registers an unwholesome shade of brown. Star Tribune, 30 July 2021 But the urge to remove monuments, rename buildings and expunge holiday appellations has become an unwholesome obsession on the political left. The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 June 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwholesome
Adjective
  • The bacteria survived, protected and fed by the fungus — and the fungus scored a poisonous partner.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • New Zealand stone flies are evolving away from mimicking poisonous insects because deforestation has left them nothing to mimic.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The essential modern text is Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that equates money with speech, resulting in an ever more corrupt system of campaign finance.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The cases also highlighted a broken system of police discipline that allegedly protected corrupt officers and punished those who tried to expose the corruption.
    Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The unhealthful effects of autocracy remain robust even when accounting for economic differences and when excluding Venezuela and its collapsing health-care system.
    Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2020
  • However, communities in the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains were still experiencing unhealthful air quality, according to the air district.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • These pollutants then build up in a confined area, resulting in degraded air quality, which may affect people with and other health concerns.
    Jess Thomson, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
  • However, in the digital age, this kind of content has been mass-produced and even more degraded.
    Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 6 June 2024
Adjective
  • But when blazes eat up urban areas and ravage buildings — such as the hardware store that burned, with its buckets full of paints and toxic chemicals — the smoke contains all sorts of other harmful particles, including the lead and asbestos that deputies were warned of in Wednesday’s message.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • These small but hazardous items, along with other forms of plastic, can contain harmful chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which can have toxic effects on marine life.
    Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In a society where adults often come to work sick, teaching teens to take care of themselves is important.
    Maya Dollarhide, Parents, 17 Jan. 2025
  • In addition to the production losses, there are additional labor and supply costs to manage the outbreak in the herd, including separation and supportive care of sick cows.
    Kimberly Dodd, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Air quality concerns Unfortunately, Zehr said any smoke being output by smoldering fires, when combined with light winds, can lead to pollutants being trapped rather than dispersed, creating unhealthy air quality concerns.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
  • But without self-reflection, old relationship patterns can quietly resurface, pulling you back into familiar and unhealthy dynamics.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Employing a blend of industrial fermentation and sustainable chemistry, Pili’s production method slashes the use of noxious chemicals and fossil fuels, a significant concern for many brands.
    Angela Lei, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • This wildly unsteady The-Fountainhead-meets-There-Will-Be-Blood plotting follows the most noxious strain in contemporary cinema.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025

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