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1
bad for the well-being of the body
- health inspectors shut down several food stands that were using tainted and unwholesome meat
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2
having or showing lowered moral character or standards
- despite having been raised in such unwholesome environments as a brothel and a traveling circus, singer Edith Piaf rose to international stardom
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- bent
- [chiefly British],
- crooked,
- cutthroat,
- dishonest,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unscrupulous
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