unholy

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

As a New Yorker, he was originally horrified by the idea of that unholy union but once he opened his mind to the concept he became a fan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Formed in England in 1968, Deep Purple became known as one of the "unholy trinity" of British heavy metal bands, alongside Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

At times, when throws were pilfered or just launched over the back with no jumper and seemingly no communication, it was an unholy mess.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

Austin reflected and helped forge the uncompromising position of most black North Carolinians toward Hodges’ plan: “The Negroes of this state will not be stampeded into such an unholy scheme,” he wrote.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

It was distinctly unbecoming in a woman whose sins were so grievous to ripple on so light-heartedly about the unholiest of cities when they sat there as jurors waiting to hear her plea for mercy.

From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson

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

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