Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unholy manner.

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  • adverb In an unholy way.

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Examples

  • Airedale and scold the collie pup unholily attracted by the red-orange, divers-finned, and many-tailed

    CHAPTER VII 2010

  • Ans Handerson's eyes were shining unholily as he asked, "How much you tank you take?"

    TOO MUCH GOLD 2010

  • Ans Handerson's eyes were shining unholily as he asked, "How much you tank you take?"

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • Innocent childhood is sweet and beautiful: but in East London innocence is a fleeting thing, and you must catch them before they crawl out of the cradle, or you will find the very babes as unholily wise as you.

    THE GHETTO 2010

  • Had she unholily tramped Piccadilly and the Strand after midnight, the police would not have interfered with her, and she would have been able to pay for her lodging.

    PROPERTY VERSUS PERSON 2010

  • And he heard her singing in the patio garden, where, also, she desisted long enough to quarrel with her Airedale and scold the collie pup unholily attracted by the red-orange, divers-finned, and many-tailed Japanese goldfish in the fountain basin.

    The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

  • Now if you were a Christian, and died thus unholily in trying to murder me, you would have to go thereafter to the unquenchable flames of purgatory or to even hotter flames: but among the pagans all that die valiantly in battle go straight to the pagan paradise.

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Ans Handerson's eyes were shining unholily as he asked, "How much you tank you take?"

    Too Much Gold 1904

  • Had she unholily tramped Piccadilly and the Strand after midnight, the police would not have interfered with her, and she would have been able to pay for her lodging.

    Property versus Person 1903

  • Innocent childhood is sweet and beautiful; but in East London innocence is a fleeting thing, and you must catch them before they crawl out of the cradle, or you will find the very babes as unholily wise as you.

    The Ghetto 1903

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