unholy


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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for unholy

not hallowed or consecrated

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extremely evil or cruel

having committed unrighteous acts

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HOLYROOD was chosen as the location for the new Scottish Parliament in an 'unholy rush' just weeks after it was added to the short list of potential sites, the inquiry into the controversial project heard yesterday.
Unholy Alliance, by Takis Michas, attempts to explain this turn against America through the prism of Greek support for the Serbia of Slobodan Milosevic during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.
'The Unholy War' by David Kertzer is an account of the struggle between the Roman Catholic church and the Jews, in the time leading up to the Holocaust.
And what an unholy stink the April 1 edition caused with callers to the Irish Sunday People.
CALL IT AN UNHOLY UNION--lesbian TV pioneer Ellen DeGeneres joins Will & Grace on February 8 as Sister Louise, a conniving nun who buys an old car that belonged to Grace's uncle.
An unholy row over legislative prayers has divided the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Indeed, according to Herzog it is "contempt for pariah groupings" that was "the ground of unholy community between conservatives and democrats" (p.
1) Pass the "unholy trinity" provisions in the Contract With America, but cover your posteriors.
Conducting foreign policy in the post-cold War world is extremely difficult, but the unholy alliance between American ignorance and white people's sense of racial entitlement has also bankrupted these policies.
The unholy trio of Satan/Sin/Death might well be a parody of trinitarianism rather than the Trinity; perhaps the metaphorical account of the creation, read in terms of Milton's subordinationism, might have yielded another instance of masculine parthogenesis.
Summary: Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 19 (ANI): Terming the BJP-Shiv Sena poll alliance as "unholy and immoral," Maharashtra Congress has said that the tie-up brings together "the corrupt and the helpless".
He said that people have once again rejected unholy alliance of the gang of looters of national exchequer.
Pals of the Zimbabwean said he had turned over a new leaf and given up everything "unholy".
Former England captain Graham Gooch has described the current turmoil surrounding the national team as "an unholy mess".
It's difficult to form an alliance, Unholy or otherwise, if the crowd are specks in the distance so the more intimate surroundings of the Civic was always going to make for one hell of a night.