unholy

The rub here is that there’s a difference between a film that becomes a cult classic because it’s genuinely underrated, and one that achieves that status through the unholy, rose-colored lens of social media obsession.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

An unholy mashup of a waiting room and a bus, the people mover is slow, uncomfortable, and offensive to the eye.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

As they fell to a dour defeat in Braga, they completed the unholy trinity of scoring an own goal, missing a penalty and receiving a red card.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

Another opponent, Lord Patten, branded the bill an "unholy legislative mess" that he said could lead to death becoming the "default solution to perceived suffering".

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025

Under this unholy barrage of my parents’ confusion and shame and disappointment, even I almost feel bad for Charlie.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

But last week in Mexico, where Maciel founded the ultraconservative Legion in 1941, the scandal took an even unholier turn.

From Time ● Mar. 8, 2010

But nightclub owners had unholier reasons to cry into their champagne last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nay, Margaret, I doubt not my thoughts have been far unholier than thine.

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

Eastman, the New Yorker from Ithaca who died in 1990 homeless at age 50, paraded himself as the unholiest Minimalist, an outrageous dissonant dissident even in the seemingly accepting new music community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2021

In my lord's hands, wielded in the unholiest of all causes, it became a thing accursed.

From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini

The next instant he was spluttering and coughing, for the doctor had dexterously placed a pill, composed of the unholiest ingredients of the engineers' stores, in the wide-open cavity.

From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Amfortas, mourning that he, the unholiest of them, should be called, opens a golden shrine and takes out the crystal vessel.

From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

As this apartment threatened him with still more rent veils of the unholiest, he took his leave without special ceremony, and went back without the Lector, who had to-day to give a reading.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter