Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Want of health; unhealthiness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Unsoundness; disease.

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  • noun Unsoundness; disease.

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Examples

  • This area is lost educated, extremely unhealth (from obesicty, smoking) rates.

    GOP senator warns of 'minor revolution' over health care 2009

  • With eating disorders like anorexia, in fact, the control of food intake, the denial of hunger, is the very manifestation of mental unhealth.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • With eating disorders like anorexia, in fact, the control of food intake, the denial of hunger, is the very manifestation of mental unhealth.

    Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy Hal Duncan 2009

  • And that in having to decide what is "unhealthy behaviour" I have had to come to a point where I say, "it's ok to do x, y and z UNLESS those things adversely impact on my ability to actively enjoy my life" and that is where I have come to in drawing a line over which I walk into crazyland/mental unhealth.

    Galactic Suburbia Show Notes - Episode 6 girliejones 2010

  • The idea, I guess, is to exalt the body, to render it religious; it has both horrific and beatific applications, and poetic language seemed the ideal medium for what is really an ode to health, unhealth, and anatomy.

    Rob Sherman Interview Philistine Press 2010

  • The idea, I guess, is to exalt the body, to render it religious; it has both horrific and beatific applications, and poetic language seemed the ideal medium for what is really an ode to health, unhealth, and anatomy.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Philistine Press 2010

  • One might contest that the movies being shown at the cinema are just the bait to get you through the door and into a neon-tinged arena of unhealth food, overpriced but apparently super-tempting to very many of us.

    Movie Popcorn is As Bad For You As Ever… Well, Mostly | /Film 2009

  • Why, if speakability is Carson's aim, would she have one of her characters declare, "Look at him, look how he drips unhealth--shudder object!"

    Archive 2009-03-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • So the idea is that sedentary lifestyle causes both fatness and “unhealth”.

    HAVE A CONVERSATION OVER DINNER, RISK OBESITY » Sociological Images 2009

  • Then give him somewhat of wine to drink and, by the decree of Allah Almighty, he will be healed of his unhealth and be made whole as he was.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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