adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wholesome/clean-cut image (= morally good and never doing anything bad )
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The recent scandal has damaged his clean-cut image.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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McCain imagines that if they sit around watching more wholesome television, they will be less prone to delinquency.
■ NOUN
food
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That function was not the provision of wholesome food at fair prices.
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Plain, wholesome food , well prepared.
image
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Particularly worrisome were the fruit drinks, which projected a wholesome image while containing sugar in some form or another.
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Recent champions have projected a clean, wholesome image .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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'Rosie's Pantry' is a small restaurant that serves good wholesome food.
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wholesome family life
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He read your new book and said it was wholesome and not at all offensive.
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Quality controllers ensure that all our products are safe, wholesome , and of good quality.
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The good thing about this game is that it provides clean and wholesome fun for all the family.
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well-balanced wholesome meals
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A shift to simple wholesome living could bring long life to many more.
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He listened to the radio, to an evangelist talking about retail prayer and wholesome prayer.
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If a G rating hurt viewership, the ratings would actually make it harder for wholesome , family shows to survive.
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Other suggestions were wholesome , home-cooked meals or decorating the home with flowers and plants.
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Sadie has defined herself against her wholesome sister, a country-folk singer who has a stable marriage and children.
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The diet is a wholesome one; healthy foods such as salads, wholemeal bread and semi-skimmed milk are used.
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Why is it that they bestow their ardour upon the well-adjusted, wholesome architects of pop's fatal new maturity?