wholesome

Example Sentences

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And the act of playing games reinforced wholesome, suburban-family values.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

There is no modest, wholesome attempt at going out on his own to make a life beyond what marital destiny provided.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

"It's just really disheartening because it's such a delightful hobby and it's so wholesome and then moments like that really break your heart," Wosley said.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

Hainsworth remembers it as "wholesome and beautiful work".

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

She gloried in the off-beat dryness of Michelle Obama’s humor, the confidence in her long-limbed carriage, and then she mourned when Michelle Obama was clamped, flattened, made to sound tepidly wholesome in interviews.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie