Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Wicked; immoral.
- adj. Not hallowed or consecrated.
- adj. Informal Outrageous: took unholy risks to win the downhill race.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not holy. Not sacred; not hallowed or consecrated.
- Impious; wicked.
- Synonyms Unhallowed, unsanctified.
- Profane, ungodly.
- n. pl. unholies (-liz). That which is unholy.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
- adj. not hallowed or consecrated
- adj. having committed unrighteous acts
Examples
“Makes for what I call the unholy trinity of Mammon which teaches that we are not our brother's keeper.”
“The joy is in unholy worship of a fetish, the pain that there is no joy also deference to a fetish.”
“Daniel refused to participate in unholy things in his country and the king was so moved by him that he declared that only the one true God would be served.”
“The car was like lightning beneath the curve of his body, electricity and steam pumping in unholy unison to create a movement that was never meant for mortal men.”
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“She looked up to see an expression of unholy glee on Rons face.”
“Many people, myself included, were raised on weekday suppers of calves 'liver and onions (I used to bathe mine in unholy gobs of ketchup), and in my experience, venison liver is the least-neglected organ meat among hunters.”
“Botha was highly critical of Mangope's move to call in the AVF, and he questioned the motives behind what he called their unholy alliance.”
“As no external privileges, or badge of discipleship, will shield the unholy from the wrath of God, so neither will the want of them shut out from the kingdom of heaven such as have experienced without them that change of heart which the seals of God's covenant were designed to mark.”
“It reflected a so-called unholy alliance between al Qaeda, the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the Taliban in Pakistan, the last of which had become a major concern to Islamabad.”
“The entire episode is told through the eyes of the vampire as he struggles to recall his unholy mission.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unholy’.
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Mobying Along
looks like there's not an open Moby Dick list. So now there is.
hypos, Manhattoes, circumambulate, mole, grapnels, bowsprit, asphaltic, mazy, tranced, cataract, ungraspable, judgmatically and 227 more...
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 340 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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Imbible Code ✞
Christian word branding; common English word-associatives connected to Bible terminology or scripture.
I also have a general Bible-word list.god, father, son, trinity, sacrament, knowledge, serpent, flood, evil, good, spirit, revelation and 118 more...
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religion
who is this god person, anyway? (--Douglas Adams)
sachristy, vestry, diocese, papal, cardinal, pope, polygamy, seven, father, chaplain, vestments, blessing and 227 more...
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Wordie Working Overtime - some words ...
Some words of from XTC songs that I like or for some reason stand out. That and a dollar will get you a ride on the bus.
transistor, impaled, settee, sunspecs, neon, meccanic, infatuation, greenhouse, capers, consequence, excepted, helicopter and 112 more...
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fearraigh's Words
heretofore, seldom, cunt, calamity, overhead, phalanx, flunky, factotum, terrestrial, dormant, afflatus, periphery and 156 more...
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Bible names
noah, almighty, cain, abel, father, mother, israel, king, sanctuary, spirit, psalm, blessing and 236 more...
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Facade
civilization, illumination, clone, danger, enigma, garden, green, healer, laugh, lord, pledge, poem and 122 more...
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Devilish
devil, demon, diabolical, deviltry, hell, devilment, devilry, hellish, infernal, hellborn, devil dance, demonic and 20 more...
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ea poe
forevermore, midnight, silken, darkness, beguile, dream, deep, roar, shore, sand, grains, lily and 71 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, U
udder, undercarriage, umpteen, umbrage, upholstery, unnerving, ubiquitous, ultraviolet, untoward, upheaval, unabashed, uncanny and 86 more...
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