unhealthily
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3.8
- adverb
- /ʌnˈhɛlθɪli/
:
de manera insalubre
- His eyes were angry, his face unhealthily pale and sweaty.
- unhealthily obsessed
- unhealthily low
I realized like I was getting like unhealthily fat.
- I realized like I was getting like unhealthily fat.
- There are anorexics who will binge and then purge in order to maintain that unhealthily low weight.
- You look unfeasibly and unhealthily fit compared to me.
Examples
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Hollywood needs to figure out a way to save stars like Anne from having to unhealthily lose (or gain) weight for a role.
Blog text (6) -
But after one of the periodic medical check-ins that should accompany any Risperdal use, we found out he was also on the verge of becoming an unhealthily overweight boy with dangerously elevated cholesterol levels.
Blog text (20) -
The reasons people with the resources to do better eat unhealthily have nothing to do with money.
Blog text (12) -
His cheeks were unhealthily flushed.
Fiction book (1993) -
Because the company's rhetoric places living well within the client's control, the implication is that living unhealthily is a choice that results in sickness.
Academic text (2014) -
About one-third (34%) said they thought they had put on weight because of their work, with almost half (49%) saying their job had driven them to eat more unhealthily.
Academic text (2015) -
I had to first learn what healthy was, what caused me to live unhealthily, mourn the loss of what I never had (i.e., a healthy life), and then apply all this newness to my life.
Blog text (10) -
After a month of eating unhealthily, I started to feel tired and sluggish.
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He realized that his habit of skipping breakfast and snacking on junk food was affecting him unhealthily.
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Many people find that drinking soda unhealthily contributes to weight gain and health problems.
Antonyms
How Unhealthy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unhealthily is made by adding un- ('not') to healthy, with -ly to make it an adverb. So, it simply means 'in a not healthy way' or 'in a way that harms your health'.