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for unholy
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
unholy
adj 1: not hallowed or consecrated [syn: unholy, unhallowed]
[ant: holy]
2: extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting
hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be
cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical
sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish
despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war";
"satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces" [syn: demonic,
diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal,
satanic, unholy]
3: having committed unrighteous acts; "a sinful person" [syn:
sinful, unholy, wicked]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "unholy":
amiss, barbarous, blamable, blameful, censurable, culpable,
fleshly, godless, guilty, impious, irreligious, irreverent,
mundane, nonsacred, profane, reprehensible, reprobate, secular,
sinful, temporal, un-Christly, unangelic, unblessed, unchristian,
uncivilized, unconscionable, ungodly, unhallowed, unregenerate,
unrighteous, unsacred, unsaintly, unsanctified, wicked, worldly
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