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unholy
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Unholy was a Finnish avant-garde doom metal band. Formed in 1988 , they were one of the first doom metal groups in their home country. Unholy originally started as a black metal /doom metal hybrid under the name Holy Hell. After recording its first demo, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an unholy row informal (= a very angry row ) ▪ An unholy row broke out between two of the men drinking in the bar. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN alliance ▪ It was the potential in this unholy alliance that she ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English unhalig , "impious, profane, wicked," from un- (1) "not" + halig (see holy ). Similar formation in Middle Dutch onheilich , Old Norse uheilagr , Danish unhellig , Swedish ohelig . In reference to actions, it is attested from late 14c. Colloquial ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Something that is evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.
Usage examples of unholy.
The idea of three hundred thousand American Negroes crossing three thousand miles of sea to fight against autocracy of the German crown constitutes the most interesting chapter in the history of this modern crusade against an unholy cause.
His face straight, he grinned at Prew with his eyebrows, and a devilish pixy peered out from behind his face with unholy glee.
He stopped and repolished the lenses, his face suddenly alight with an unholy excitement.
There was something most sacred, yet particularly unmysterious, and thus unholy, in all of this, a tingling of ecstasy combined with a slightly foul taste that Avelyn Desbris could not ignore.
The very rocks and air of Bajor are suffering the consequences of the unholy alliances to which General Aur has bound my people .
Strength to massage the neck of that unholy creation named Balthazar, until he ceased to breathe.
New York Times bestsellerdom dancing in his head for the first time in months, Stewart McQueen thanked the prince of all that was unholy before tearing off into the night.
Later on in life I was the victim of a cruel hoax, carried out with triumphant ingenuity by a confirmed practical joker, who with the aid of a thread caused what appeared to be a gigantic blackbeetle to perform strange and unholy evolutions in my sitting-room.
All the others had died soon after the mysterious storm stranded them in this unholy land with la cueva del Diablo.
But Tiresias heard these shrieks, he saw the sights unholy and ungainly and because of this he sobbed intensely as he continued his shuffling sort of shamble through a Dantean picaresque blindness of pine trees and live oaks grappling in animated splendor with his very soul.
For the Mormon pioneers the most important features of the topography were the natural barriers that Brigham Young felt would protect their nascent state of Deseret from the influence of belligerent, unholy gentiles.
Gradually, however, the sound of this unholy feast died away, and, though you may hardly believe it, I fell off into a doze.
We all know that Dracula put some unholy sleep upon the servants and myself that night.
The foetor of the Pit was its unholy breath, and the bone-deep chill of interstellar space was its blighting touch.
Will you foreswear the drinking of human blood and dedicate the rest of your unholy existence to the service of Christ?