0 the quality or state of being unwholesome (= not good for you physically, morally, or emotionally):
He does not like his neighborhood being dirtied up by petty crime and unwholesomeness.
I don't have to deal with a lot of profanity or unwholesomeness.
School sport taught me about the unwholesomeness of compulsion.
I think the words "unwholesomeness of the water" make reasonable provision for such cases.
It is thought that the only proper ground on which a local authority should disapprove the alternative source of supply was that of its unwholesomeness.
It is the duty of the local council to ascertain the sufficiency and wholesomeness of the supply and to notify the water authority of any insufficiency or unwholesomeness.
I do not know, but one would admit that there is no dispute between us as to the seriousness of the situation, as to the unwholesomeness of the situation.
The book, however, quickly became a byword for unwholesomeness among mainstream critics of the day.
