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unholy

[uhn-hoh-lee] / ʌnˈhoʊ li /




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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

The noise, according to singer Katie Gavin, was like an unholy screech.

From BBC Jul. 24, 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

A God’s-eye view captures sparks and flames tearing a circle around his unholy play.

From Salon Jan. 23, 2026

They were an unholy mess, tangled so badly the gangline was in knots.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

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




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