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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

/ ÊŒ²Ôˈ³óəʊ±ôɪ /

adjective

  1. not holy or sacred
  2. immoral or depraved
  3. informal.
    outrageous or unnatural

    an unholy alliance

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Derived Forms

  • ³Ü²Ôˈ³ó´Ç±ô¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³Ü²Ô·³ó´Çl¾±Â·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of unholy1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English ³Ü²Ô³óÄå±ô¾±²µ (cognate with Dutch onheilig, Old Norse Å«³ó±ð¾±±ô²¹²µ°ù ). See un- 1, holy
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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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For Pyne, California’s “unholy mingling of built and natural landscapes†ultimately undermined any fire protection.

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Worse is the tech moguls’ unholy financial influence.

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