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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unholy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unholy rowinformal (= 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 feared.
▪ Smith particularly feared unholy alliances between business and government.
▪ An unholy alliance with other minorities to preserve ideological positions otherwise unacceptable to the electorate does not appeal as a noble enterprise.
row
▪ And five thousand years on: An unholy row over the Dead Sea Scrolls.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ What are you making such an unholy fuss about?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the edges of her symbol were darkened by the unholy fires of self-doubt.
▪ Eating flesh was unholy, and blood would stain an altar; only meal and grain were acceptable for food and sacrifice.
▪ Meanwhile over the top sings Mel, clearer and truer than before, apparently blissfully unaware of the unholy mayhem beneath her.
▪ Smith particularly feared unholy alliances between business and government.
▪ The unholy triumvirate of developer, planner and architect had maimed it for ever in the sixties and seventies.
▪ We were the most unholy trinity on the face of the earth, or else the most holy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
unholy

unholy \un*ho"ly\ ([u^]n*h[=o]"l[y^]), a. Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious. -- un*ho"li*ly, adv. -- un*ho"li*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unholy

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 sense of "awful, dreadful" is recorded from 1842.

Wiktionary
unholy

a. Something that is evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.

WordNet
unholy
  1. adj. not hallowed or consecrated [syn: unhallowed] [ant: holy]

  2. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces" [syn: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic]

  3. having committed unrighteous acts; "a sinful person" [syn: sinful, wicked]

  4. [also: unholiest, unholier]

Wikipedia
Unholy (Martin Grech album)

Unholy is a 2005 album by British musician Martin Grech.

Unholy (2007 film)

Unholy is an independent film about Nazi mysticism starring Adrienne Barbeau and Nicholas Brendon. It was written by Samuel Stephen Freeman, directed by Daryl Goldberg, and produced by Joshua Blumenfeld and Sky Whisper Productions. Its release on DVD was on September 4, 2007. The movie is alleged to be based on fact, and was produced to document the facts surrounding the experiments in mysticism.

Unholy (band)

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, "Kill Jesus", they changed their name to Unholy. The band achieved underground popularity with its next demo and the 1991 EP Trip to Depressive Autumn, and signed with Lethal Records, an Austrian record label that released the band's first album, From the Shadows, in 1993. Unholy then signed with Avantgarde Music for the next album, The Second Ring of Power, but disbanded soon after its release in 1994. However, they re-formed only two years later.

Unholy released their last two albums, Rapture and Gracefallen, also through Avantgarde Music. The band announced they were splitting up on March 25, 2002.

In 2008 Unholy started co-operation with Ahdistuksen Aihio label to release all demos as vinyl, which were released in spring 2011 with complete history booklet of the band. After Peaceville Records bought Unholy album release rights from Avantgarde Music they started to negotiate for re-issuing all full-length albums. Reissuing project produced some changes to cover arts but also for album songs list. Gracefallen got one bonus track "Gone" which was released originally during Gracefallen recording sessions, but was left out from original release. Rapture included two live bonus tracks from year 1999. The Second Ring of Power not only got completely new cover artwork but it also included 45 minutes long bonus DVD from gig 1994.

In the beginning of year 2012 Unholy also started to do preparations and rehearsals for combined comeback and farewell project with so called original line-up. Project would last only for summer 2012. After that band would split up again. Band played four open air festival live shows in summer 2012, as the spirit of "good old times for good old fans"; 2 in Finland, 1 in Germany and 1 in Romania. In autumn band announced in official website that "hats are off", meaning band retired as planned.

Unholy

Unholy may refer to:

In film:

  • Unholy (2007 film), a 2007 film starring Adrienne Barbeau
  • The Unholy (1988 film), a 1988 horror film

In music:

  • Unholy (band), a Finnish doom metal group
  • Unholy (Brainstorm album)
  • Unholy (Martin Grech album)
  • "Unholy" (song), a song by Kiss
  • Unholy Records, a record label
  • Unholy (Altaria album)
Unholy (Brainstorm album)

Unholy is the second album by German metal band Brainstorm, released in 1998. On March 23, 2007, this album and Hungry were remastered by Achim Köhler and re-released by Century Media with four bonus tracks. Metal Blade Records reissued the album as a double CD with both the remastered and original version and all the bonus tracks.

Unholy (song)

"Unholy" is a song by the American hard rock band Kiss, written by Gene Simmons and Vinnie Vincent. Featured on their 1992 album Revenge, the song is one of the three Vincent co-writes to appear on the album despite the fact that he had been fired from the band 8 years earlier. The release of "Unholy" signaled the return to a heavier sound for Kiss and was their first single to feature a lead vocal by bassist Gene Simmons since " I Love It Loud" in 1982 (a song also co-written by Vincent). The song was played live during the Revenge Tour and was included on the 1993 live album Alive III, but did not return to the live Kiss set list until 2004's Rock the Nation Tour.

Unholy (Altaria album)

Unholy is Finnish power metal band Altaria's fourth studio album, released in May 2009. This album highlights a change in Altaria's style, as the use of keyboards was dropped, and a more guitar-oriented sound was used. It is also the first Altaria album to include singer Marco Luponero.

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?