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unholy

[uhn-hoh-lee]

adjective

unholier, unholiest 
  1. not holy; not sacred or hallowed.

  2. impious; sinful; wicked.

  3. Informal.dreadful; ungodly.

    They got us out of bed at the unholy hour of three in the morning.



unholy

/ ʌˈəʊɪ /

adjective

  1. not holy or sacred

  2. immoral or depraved

  3. informaloutrageous or unnatural

    an unholy alliance

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • unholiness noun
  • ܲˈDZԱ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of unholy1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English ܲԳ (cognate with Dutch onheilig, Old Norse ū𾱱 ). See un- 1, holy
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My fiancee Roxana qualifies for sainthood because whenever we go out, she must patiently wait for me to get dressed, which takes forever and is accompanied by the unholy sounds of struggle.

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We gather today to celebrate the motel, a uniquely American creature, conceived in California through the unholy embrace of the automobile and the hotel.

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"It's like an unholy alliance," says Catherine Pakaluk, an economist, mother of eight and stepmother of six.

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Dame Meg Hillier, who chairs the influential Treasury Committee of MPs, described the situation as "one unholy mess" because dealers and lenders may not have been transparent to their customers.

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Such an alliance is an unholy matrimony since Yarvin and his student technocrats seem only to be focused on a marriage of monarchism and kleptocracy.

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