Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not salutary; not favorable to health or soundness; unwholesome.
- Not safe; not tending to safety; productive of evil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health.
- adjective Not tending to safety; productive of evil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
salutary orwholesome ; bad forhealth . - adjective Not tending to
safety ; productive ofevil .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In modern times the moon is no less the deity of insalutary disaster.
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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Languor and inertia are the insalutary viands upon which it delights to satiate its morbid appetite; and "from bad to worse" is the ill-omened motto under which, in all its feeble efforts and achievements, it ekes out a most miserable and deleterious existence.
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Nor could so experienced a leader of mankind be insensible of those often not insalutary consequences of a free state in the changing humours of a wide democracy -- their impatience at pecuniary demands -- their quick and sometimes uncharitable apprehensions of the motives of their advisers.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The garden of Academus is flowery without fragrance, and dazzling without warmth: I am ready to dream away an hour in it after dinner, but I think it insalutary for a night's repose.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819
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