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unhealthful /ʌnˈhɛlθfʊl / /ʌnˈhɛlθf(ə)l/adjectiveHarmful to health: radon can build up to unhealthful levels...- Even with a seemingly endless June gloom - which keeps down temperatures and smog - area residents have inhaled unhealthful levels of pollution twice as often as last year, which was no fresh-air vacation.
- Health officials have declared the air to be unhealthful.
- Food and beverage companies are using television ads to entice children into eating massive amounts of unhealthful food, leading to a sharp increase in childhood obesity and diabetes, a national science advisory panel said yesterday.
Derivativesunhealthfulness noun ...- A few gave up the battle, and moved away on account of the unhealthfulness of the country.
- It is to the former that its unhealthfulness is generally due.
- While many observers noted the unhealthfulness of the marshy tidewater zone, they also emphasized the richness of the land and its potential for economic development.
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