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unholy

[uhn-hoh-lee] / ʌnˈhoʊ li /




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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

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

I Manuel Flores am wrapped in the unholy noise and wind from this unholy train.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

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

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

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

By the time the men tumbled up, Jacka had his helm up, and the Van der Werf, with sheets pinned, was leaning to it and knocking up the unholiest sputter.

From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch




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