unhealthful

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From un- + healthful.

This low strip is in many places wet and swampy, and, being swampy, is from Durban northward malarious and unhealthful in the highest degree. — Impressions of South Africa, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
William Harris, at last thoroughly convinced of the radically unhealthful nature of his abode, now took steps toward quitting it and closing it for ever. — The Shunned House, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
Borneo has a great future, however, when a race of civilized people can be found who can inhabit it, for it is even more unhealthful than Sumatra. — Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania, Jewett C. (Jewett Castello) Gilson

unsanitary, insanitary

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