unsalutary

English[edit]

unsalutary (comparative more unsalutary, superlative most unsalutary)

Not salutary.
- 1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XXI. (of XXI.)‎^[1]:
  Such Nations cannot have a King to command them; can only have this or the other scandalous swindling Copper Captain, constitutional Gilt Mountebank, or other the like unsalutary entity by way of King; and the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children in a frightful and tragical manner, little noticed in the Penny Newspapers and Periodical Literatures of this generation.
- 1903, William Godwin, Caleb Williams‎^[2]:
  It furnished a strong, and perhaps not an unsalutary contrast, to the terrors which had preceded, and the dreadful scenes that awaited me.