Wiktionary
n. A coalition among seemingly antagonistic groups, especially if one is religious, for ad hoc or hidden gain. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unholy%20Alliance.)
Wikipedia
Unholy Alliance may refer to:
- Unholy alliance (geopolitical), when political antagonists temporarily join together to fight a common enemy
- The Unholy Alliance (professional wrestling), an Extreme Championship Wrestling tag team
- The Unholy Alliance Tour, an annual heavy metal tour
- "Unholy Alliance", Parts One and Two, episodes of Highlander: The Series
An unholy alliance popularly refers to an alliance which is perceived as unnatural, unusual, or simply undesirable, sometimes between seemingly antagonistic parties.
Usage examples of "unholy alliance".
If I had not been half mad with loneliness and grief for the death of my songs, I might have seen through Cassana's unholy alliance immediately.
Yet still he reached out with Kline, the two men joined in an unholy alliance, compelled by the mystery .
The darkness that Mikhyel feared in himself would be as noth ing to the darkness that would manifest in him once it found this willing partner, this scarfaced partner who avoided the sweet and gentle Mheltiri's soul and sought a soul instead who could appreciate the advantages of such an unholy alliance, someone who would understand the anger and the violence.
The seven beasts that Dessimbelackis made pact with - and oh, weren't the Nameless Ones shaken by that unholy alliance?
I believe it might have blown over if the clown Cobden, abetted by Gladstone and D'Israeli (there's an unholy alliance, if you like), hadn't worked himself into a sweat in Parliament, saying it was all our fault, and it was a scandal the way our opium-traffickers abused the Chinese, who were the most saintly folk on record, while British bounce and arrogance were a byword, and we were just picking a quarrel, more shame to us.
All morning they have been howling about the injustice of the signing, about how the covenant signals an unholy alliance between a people who missed their Messiah the first time and a leader who denies the existence of God.
Did that mean the Serke in fact controlled their unholy alliance with the brethren-or only that all her enemies were equally intimidated?
Kaen and Blod, unable to find the Cauldron on their own and driven near to madness by forty years of failure, had entered into an unholy alliance.
And if the Moonlight Cove police were virtually soldiers in Thomas Shaddack's private army, it followed that the suspicious number of violent deaths in recent weeks could be related to that unholy alliance.
New houses, strangers moving into the area, the old evil being joined by new evil in an unholy alliance.
An unholy alliance between southern-state special interests determined to protect their high-priced sugar, cotton and coffee.
Maud'Dib and the Cast Out at Fondak formed a rather unholy alliance Eyeless Paul Atreides wandered into the desert sup poscdly to die, bat instead returned as The Preacher whose sermons purposed to purify the fanatic religion founded upon his own myth and later corrupted by Aha and her Priesthood into a cynical tool of political power By the time he reached Fbndak/Jacu rutu, however, Paul was nearly a broken man The Cast Out, appreciating his value allowed him to live, hoping to weaken him further and use him as an instrument of revenge Both were .