unhealthy
adjective
un·healthy
ˌən-ˈhel-thē 
unhealthier; unhealthiest
1
: not conducive to health : not healthful
an unhealthy climate
unhealthy habits
unhealthy foods
Examples of unhealthy in a Sentence
Her skin looks blotchy and unhealthy.
Tests revealed an unhealthy level of lead in the water.
Eating honey can be unhealthy for babies.
He was stuck in an unhealthy relationship.
She has an unhealthy interest in natural disasters.
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Reams of studies have also found that healthy diets are more expensive than unhealthy ones—sometimes as much as doubly so.
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Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
Tucker Carlson, the one-time cable news king now moonlighting as a dissident podcaster, has evinced an unhealthy obsession with the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
The law seeks to define ultraprocessed foods, the often super-tasty products typically full of sugar, salt and unhealthy fats.
—Sophie Austin, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
California made history Wednesday by enacting the first law in the United States to define and ultimately ban unhealthy ultraprocessed foods, or UPFs, from meals served to over one billion California schoolchildren annually.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
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Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
Tucker Carlson, the one-time cable news king now moonlighting as a dissident podcaster, has evinced an unhealthy obsession with the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
The law seeks to define ultraprocessed foods, the often super-tasty products typically full of sugar, salt and unhealthy fats.
—Sophie Austin, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
California made history Wednesday by enacting the first law in the United States to define and ultimately ban unhealthy ultraprocessed foods, or UPFs, from meals served to over one billion California schoolchildren annually.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Unhealthy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unhealthy. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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