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unholy
[ uhn-hoh-lee ]
adjective
- not holy; not sacred or hallowed.
- impious; sinful; wicked.
- Informal. dreadful; ungodly:
They got us out of bed at the unholy hour of three in the morning.
unholy
/ ÊŒ²Ôˈ³óəʊ±ôɪ /
adjective
- not holy or sacred
- immoral or depraved
- informal.outrageous or unnatural
an unholy alliance
Derived Forms
- ³Ü²Ôˈ³ó´Ç±ô¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ü²Ô·³ó´Çl¾±Â·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
"It's like an unholy alliance," says Catherine Pakaluk, an economist, mother of eight and stepmother of six.
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.
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.
For Pyne, California’s “unholy mingling of built and natural landscapes†ultimately undermined any fire protection.
Worse is the tech moguls’ unholy financial influence.
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