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[ uhn-hoh-lee ] / ʌnˈhoʊ li / SEE SYNONYMS FOR unholy ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, un·ho·li·er, un·ho·li·est.not holy; not sacred or hallowed. impious; sinful; wicked. Informal. dreadful; ungodly: They got us out of bed at the unholy hour of three in the morning. Origin of unholybefore 1000; Middle English; Old English unhālig (cognate with Dutch onheilig,Old Norse ūheilagr). See un-1, holy OTHER WORDS FROM unholyun·ho·li·ness, nounWords nearby unholyunhindered, unhinge, unhinged, unhip, unhitch, unholy, unhood, unhook, unhoped, unhoped-for, unhorse Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for unholyISIS had summoned him from the Talesh area in the Guilan province north of Tehran, to perform the unholy duty. Iran Says It’s Under Attack by ISIS|Jassem Al Salami|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST This unholy marriage of faux country and pseudo hip-hop is literally the worst of both worlds. You Can't Unsee Billy Ray Cyrus’s Pseudo Hip Hop ‘Achy Breaky 2’|Amy Zimmerman|February 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST For lack of a better term, it was an animal-hostage video, an unholy new mash-up of internet genres. The Taliban Trolled the Internet with a Dog Video and Upstaged an American POW|Brian Van Reet|February 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST To be sure, there is more than enough reality to make the pursuit of peace hit any number of walls, both holy and unholy ones. Daniel Gordis Has It Backwards|Mark Baker|December 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Where we had once stood spellbound by the sight of the burning towers, we now listened to the unholy roar of the wind. New York City’s Sandy Disaster: A Meteorological 9/11?|Michael Daly|October 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST He revealed the unholy ideals of all that band of scoundrels—ideals that he said should find fruition under his captaincy. Romance|Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer When will a judgment descend on this unholy land, for the monstrous sins by which it is now daily polluted. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland|Various The sorcerer is outlawed, and betakes himself to the secret performance of unholy rites in dark and unwholesome circumstances. The Origin of Man and of his Superstitions|Carveth Read In return they expressed their unholy delight in the certainty of our destruction by the enemy. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce|Ambrose Bierce Thus self-renunciation is common to the holy with the unholy, to the pure and the impure. The Ego and His Own|Max Stirner
British Dictionary definitions for unholy
adjective -lier or -liestnot holy or sacred immoral or depraved informal outrageous or unnaturalan unholy alliance Derived forms of unholyunholiness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to unholyunhallowed, base, corrupt, culpable, depraved, dishonest, evil, godless, guilty, heinous, immoral, impious, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, profane, sinful, ungodly, vile, wicked |