Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unwholesome or unsound manner.
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- adverb In an
unhealthy manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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So people who suffer heart attacks (or whatever) have already had “ugly attacks” to remind them that eating unhealthily is a bad thing.
Matthew Yglesias » Health Scares Reduce Smoking, But Not Obeisity 2009
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I know, I know, I am obsessing kind of unhealthily aren't I?
sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003
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The magistrate discharged the two juvenile offenders and warned the father that he was bringing his children up unhealthily.
THE CHILDREN 2010
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But that consequence is by no means a necessary one: George is the way he is because of his unhealthily close relationship to his mother.
The Magnificent Ambersons « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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There is a strong link with type 2 diabetes and being overweight, sedentary and eating unhealthily.
Diabetes and obesity rates soar to 'shocking' levels Helen Carter 2010
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But a better -- and sadly unlikely -- outcome would be to examine other unhealthily cozy and distorted relationships, for example, the one between investment banks and central governments, with the same long-overdue urgency for fundamental change that we're seeing in Parliament -- and Congress, in fact -- today.
Adam Hanft: Murdoch's Arab Summer; We Always Knew, Now We Know Adam Hanft 2011
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The fact is, Americans do some things more unhealthily than (say) Europeans.
Matthew Yglesias » The Health Care System Should Give People Good Advice About Health 2010
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Anyway, he says, he never regarded himself as unhealthily ambitious, it's just that there we so many things he wanted to do.
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Alas, his cousins in the Fifa family managed to talk him into a tights-coordinated-with-shorts compromise and so we shall never know whether Sepp finds a ladder at the thigh an unbearable infringement of style etiquette, or a bit of a turn-on, though only if the resultantly exposed flesh is unhealthily white and covered in goose bumps.
Sepp Blatter plays game of follow the lederhosen | Harry Pearson 2011
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But a better -- and sadly unlikely -- outcome would be to examine other unhealthily cozy and distorted relationships, for example, the one between investment banks and central governments, with the same long-overdue urgency for fundamental change that we're seeing in Parliament -- and Congress, in fact -- today.
Adam Hanft: Murdoch's Arab Summer; We Always Knew, Now We Know Adam Hanft 2011
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