heathenish

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Abolitionist Rodney French, a Massachusetts merchant and politician, called it the “most disgraceful, atrocious, unjust, detestable, heathenish, barbarous, diabolical, man-degrading, woman-murdering, demon-pleasing, Heaven-defying act ever perpetrated.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2022

Such a spirit, it once was believed, could return to earth, take heathenish possession of an innocent mortal.

From Time Magazine Archive

What brought these Senatorial headhunters together under the missionary banner of Mr. Hatch was a simple, heathenish fact: they were all interested in breaking up dangerously strong machines in their home States.

From Time Magazine Archive

Better Joe hath suggested some specific remedies, which Isaac the Joiner decries loudly as the cant of heathenish superstition; and indeed, one wonders at the applications of bone.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

But this is the question to be settled: were those old days of heathenish rites and savage valour the prime days of our race?

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John