unholy

unholy
adj.
Unholy is used with these nouns: ↑alliance, ↑mess, ↑row

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  • Unholy — may refer to: * Unholy (album), an album by the British alternative rock musician Martin Grech. * Unholy (band), a Finnish doom metal group. * Unholy (2007 film), a 2007 film starring Adrienne Barbeau about Nazi mysticism * Unholy (song), a 1992… …   Wikipedia

  • Unholy — Жанр Дум метал Годы с 1988 по 2002 год с 2009 года Страна …   Википедия

  • Unholy — es el segundo álbum de el músico británico Martin Grech. Unholy Álbum musical de Martin Grech Publicación 14 de Junio de 2005 Género(s) Alternative rock Progressive Dark ambient …   Wikipedia Español

  • unholy — [adj1] sacrilegious base, blameful, corrupt, culpable, depraved, dishonest, evil, godless, guilty, heinous, immoral, impious, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, irreverential, profane, sinful, ungodly, unhallowed, unsanctified, vile, wicked;… …   New thesaurus

  • unholy — ► ADJECTIVE (unholier, unholiest) 1) sinful; wicked. 2) (of an alliance) unnatural and potentially harmful. 3) informal dreadful: an unholy row …   English terms dictionary

  • unholy — un*ho ly ([u^]n*h[=o] l[y^]), a. Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious. {un*ho li*ly}, adv. {un*ho li*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • unholy — index mundane, profane Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • unholy — O.E. unhalig, impious, profane, wicked, from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + halig (see HOLY (Cf. holy)). Cf. M.Du. onheilich, O.N. uheilagr, Dan. unhellig, Swed. ohelig. In reference to actions, it is attested from late 14c. Colloquial sense of awful,… …   Etymology dictionary

  • unholy — [unhō′lē] adj. unholier, unholiest [ME < OE unhalig < un , not + halig,HOLY] 1. not sacred, hallowed, or consecrated 2. wicked; profane; impious 3. Informal outrageous; dreadful unholiness n …   English World dictionary

  • unholy — [[t]ʌ̱nho͟ʊli[/t]] 1) ADJ: ADJ n (emphasis) You use unholy to emphasize how unreasonable or unpleasant you think something is. She protested that it wasn t traditional jazz at all, but an unholy row... The economy is still an unholy mess. Syn:… …   English dictionary

  • unholy — un|ho|ly [ʌnˈhəuli US ˈhou ] adj [no comparative] 1.) an unholy alliance an agreement between two people or organizations who would not normally work together, usually for a bad purpose 2.) [only before noun] informal bad and extreme ▪ An unholy… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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