Unholy
[ʌn'həʊlɪ] or [ʌn'holi]
Definition
(a.) Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unhallowed, unsanctified, profane.[2]. Undevout, irreligious, ungodly, impious, irreverent, wicked, sinful, blasphemous.
Editor: Lucius
Definition
adj. not sacred or hallowed wicked sinful.—adv. Unhō′lily.—n. Unhō′liness.
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Examples
- Well, if so much of unholy force can arise from below, may not an equal efflux of sacred essence descend one day from above? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But they cannot be allowed to live in licentiousness; that is an unholy thing, which the rulers are determined to prevent. Plato. The Republic.
- He had another burst--a burst of unholy rapture this time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Both men then looked with a weird unholy interest in the wake of Gaffer's boat. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was nothing to them that I, a stranger, must be sacrificed upon the altar of their unholy ambition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Thousands of people who hate the waste and futility of war as much as any of the orators of that evening were filled with an unholy glee. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I enjoyed the triumph--the unholy triumph, I fear I must admit--of seeing Mr. Bruff utterly confounded and overthrown by a few plain words from Me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She shrinks from it as from something unholy, and such thoughts never found a resting-place in that pure and gentle bosom. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The merriment of the hour was an unholy mockery of the sorrows of man. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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