unsustaining

“Unorthodox” is, unambiguously, the story of a woman’s escape from a society that she finds suffocating and unsustaining.

Reading them can be unsustaining and ill-making, the equivalent of eating only the yolks from eggs or the middles from Oreos or the livers from geese.

The fibres, half of them actually broken and the rest sprained, and, though tough, unsustaining?

It was as well to acquire support on both sides, for the surface of the glazed chintz was slippery, inconveniently unsustaining to his equilibrium.

The word “chaff” was, I suppose, originally applied to badinage to express its barren and unsustaining character; but to the English poor chaff is as sustaining as grain.