adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unhealthy obsession (= an obsession that is not normal )
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Our society seems to have an unhealthy obsession with staying young.
poor/unhealthy
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A poor diet affects your skin and hair condition.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fear
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Your organization has simply lived too long with corrosive, unhealthy fear .
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Healthy fears block the path to failure, while unhealthy fears steer organizations away from growth and success.
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But unfortunately, they can also give rise to unhealthy fears .
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Finally, restricting has the inevitable consequence of spreading unhealthy fear throughout an organization.
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Low morale is an expression of the unhealthy fear that accompanies destructive core beliefs.
interest
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The other is to believe and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.
obsession
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The representation of sexuality here is of an unhealthy obsession .
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Soon after the departure of Roszak from Peace News McGrath had quit that paper, nursing an unhealthy obsession with drugs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An unhealthy diet is one that is too high in fat and sugar and too low in fibre.
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At the age of 30 I was fat, unhealthy , and smoked two packs of cigarettes a day.
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Eating all that junk food is really unhealthy .
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He has such an unhealthy lifestyle -- smoking, drinking, eating too much.
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James was a thin, pale, unhealthy child.
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My mother thought it was unhealthy to sleep with the windows shut at night.
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People who are very overweight tend to be more unhealthy than others.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And Lindsey decided it was unhealthy , and that it had become divorce time.
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And they are given interpersonal strategies to avoid peer pressure to make these unhealthy choices.
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Competition characterises a healthy organisation and conflict an unhealthy organisation.
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One of them was a doctor, a large, unhealthy looking specimen with a huge warty nose covered in broken veins.
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Some managers come away from virtual reality demonstrations with unhealthy visions of holograms dancing in their heads.
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There's something rather unhealthy about this particular game.
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This is the unhealthy kind of denial.
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What may be unhealthy is the desire for instant transformations, the desire for that change to take place in an instant.