Word Finder - unholy

definition

Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.

example

The priest's unholy behaviour brought the church into disrepute.

definition

Dreadful, terrible, or otherwise atrocious.

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What an unholy mess your room is in!

He forced her head back until he could see her eyes, and she could see the unholy light in his.

It is considered unholy to fast on this day.

Together they search for a missing vicar - uncovering an unholy alliance.

Whenever I thought of it I wondered how I ever could have been inspired to do so unholy a thing.

There are of course many cases where business interests do make an unholy alliance with the State.

Eventually, they discover the unholy truth - the child is the son of Satan.

The year which marked the close of the Lateran council was also signalized by Leo's unholy war against the duke of Urbino.

Bell's George W Bush is the unholy innocent, a literal dumb ape, a chimpanzee spreading gleeful mass destruction.

We must act now, before any more innocents suffer. ' ' He keeps talking about an unholy Grail.

Which is how I ended up with this unholy mess.

The vast quantity of it on the internet attests to an unholy symmetry between click-and-point and the solitary, masturbatory act itself.

Possibly judging by an unholy trinity of bad tidings to report.

But how can we who are so very unholy become holy?

The ' unholy mess ' created by Culture Minister...

If men prepare for war there is bound to be an unholy row.

It generally turns out as an unholy mix of Pakistani and Welsh.

You will explore dark and dangerous places like the labyrinthine, the ruined dwarven city underneath the earth, an unholy keep of a vampire, and other dimensional planes.

The Dragon Lord has reclaimed the land as his own and threatens everyone with an unholy pestilence.

He dared to love Isabeau D'Anjou, who was the object of the unholy lust of the Bishop of Aquila.

Numerous foreigners had been allowed to settle in Moscow and to build for themselves a heretical church, and their strange unholy customs had been adopted by not a few courtiers and great dignitaries.

Out of this grew up in the 3rd or 4th century what is known as the arcani disciplina, or secret discipline of the Church, involving the concealment from the uninitiated and unholy of the more sacred parts of the Christian cult, such as baptism and the eucharist, with their various accompaniments, including the Creed and the Lord's Prayer.

Matteo Ricci, an Italian by birth, was also an indefatigable missionary in China for twenty-seven years, while the unholy compromise 1 Neander vii.

The employment of soldiers to suppress liberty of speech stirred up the resentment of Englishmen as nothing else could have done, and this resentment was increased by the conviction that the government was engaged with the Holy Alliance in an unholy conspiracy against liberty everywhere.

Meanwhile Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas, accepting the exegetical services of the Arabians, did their best to controvert the obnoxious doctrine of the Intellect, and to defend the orthodoxy of Aristotle against the unholy glosses of infidels.

This newest bastard stepchild from the unholy matrimony of Daimler Benz and Chrysler just plain looks like ass.

The offspring of the unholy union, the baby Connor (fully human, no less!) was kidnapped and spirited away to a demon dimension, returning in a short time as an angry, conflicted young man, with some impressive slaying moves of his own.

After a childhood spent in an austerity which stigmatized as unholy even the novels of Sir Walter Scott, he began his college career at the age of fourteen at a time when Christopher North and Dr Ritchie were lecturing on Moral Philosophy and Logic. His first philosophical advance was stimulated by Thomas Brown's Cause and Effect, which introduced him to the problems which were to occupy his thought.