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Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
Hilaire Belloc

Meaning of "unholy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNHOLY

unholy  [ʌnˈhəʊlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNHOLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unholy is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNHOLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Unholy

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Definition of unholy in the English dictionary

The first definition of unholy in the dictionary is not holy or sacred. Other definition of unholy is immoral or depraved. Unholy is also outrageous or unnatural.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNHOLY


cannoli
kəˈnəʊlɪ
carnaroli
ˌkɑːnəˈrəʊlɪ
choli
ˈkəʊlɪ
coley
ˈkəʊlɪ
foley
ˈfəʊlɪ
goalie
ˈɡəʊlɪ
guacamole
ˌɡwɑːkəˈməʊlɪ
holey
ˈhəʊlɪ
holy
ˈhəʊlɪ
lowly
ˈləʊlɪ
moly
ˈməʊlɪ
narrowly
ˈnærəʊlɪ
overholy
ˌəʊvəˈhəʊlɪ
ravioli
ˌrævɪˈəʊlɪ
roly-poly
ˈrəʊlɪˈpəʊlɪ
Rowley
ˈrəʊlɪ
shallowly
ˈʃæləʊlɪ
slowly
ˈsləʊlɪ
soli
ˈsəʊlɪ
zeppole
zɛˈpəʊlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNHOLY

unhoard
unholier
unholiest
unholily
unholiness
unhomelike
unhomely
unhomogenised
unhomogenized
unhonored
unhonoured
unhood
unhook
unhoop
unhoped-for
unhopeful
unhopefully
unhorse
unhospitable
unhostile

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNHOLY

absolute monopoly
allicholy
amphiboly
antimonopoly
coly
cooly
drooly
duopoly
emboly
epiboly
gooly
government monopoly
melancholy
monopoly
natural monopoly
oligopoly
poly
stooly
the holy
Trichinopoly

Synonyms and antonyms of unholy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNHOLY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «unholy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of unholy

Translation of «unholy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNHOLY

Find out the translation of unholy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unholy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unholy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

邪恶
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

impía
570 millions of speakers

English

unholy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपवित्र
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير مقدس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нечестивый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

profano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপবিত্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

impie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

tidak suci
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unheilig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

とんでもない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

신성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora suci
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không cung kính
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புனிதமில்லாத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपवित्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dine aykırı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

empio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Unholy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безбожний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

profan
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανίερη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onheilige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ohelig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unholy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unholy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNHOLY»

The term «unholy» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.060 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNHOLY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unholy

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2 QUOTES WITH «UNHOLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unholy.
1
Hilaire Belloc
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
2
David Eddings
I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNHOLY»

Discover the use of unholy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unholy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult
Levenda's is not only a "major work of investigative reporting," but also the striking story of the unholy alliance between politics and religion - or politics and occultism - that has dominated events in Europe and the Americas since World ...
Peter Levenda, 2002
2
Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam
Of the intellectual underpinnings of the more radical elements of contemporary Islam.
John L. Esposito, 2003
3
Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO
This work shows how the world's leading financial institutions - the IMF, World Bank and WTO - have been hijacked by the economic ideology of neoliberalism and the interest behind it, particularly from the 1980s onwards and in relation to ...
Richard Peet, 2003
4
Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left
The bestselling Unholy Alliance-now in paperback! Former Leftist radical David Horowitz blows the lid off the dangerous liaison between U.S. liberals and Islamic radicals.
David Horowitz, 2006
5
Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism
This book provides an account of this alliance and how it backfired with the events of September 11.
John Cooley, 2002
6
Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis, and The Swiss Banks
Featuring startling new information, "Unholy Trinity" redefines the Catholic Church's role in twentieth-century history. of photos.
Mark Aarons, John Loftus, 1998
7
Unholy Empire
Lucifer's hordes launch an all-out war on humankind in an attempt to identify and destroy the promised One, for if this mission fails, they are doomed.
D. Brian Shafer, 2002
8
An Unholy Alliance: The Sacred and Modern Sports
In this evocative book, Higgs and Braswell suggest that while sports may often be good things, they are not inherently divine. They do not focus on wide-spread abuse in sports as evidence for their counterargument.
Robert J. Higgs, Michael Braswell, 2004
9
Unholy hungers: encountering the psychic vampire in ...
Uses mythical, literary, and film references to discuss the vampire archetype from a Jungian perspective and explore its relevance to personal relationships
Barbara E. Hort, 1996
10
Unholy Alliance: A Global Deception
An unholy alliance was signed between the negative aliens and the secret world government in Europe in 1572 and with the US in 1946.
Bonnie Meyer, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNHOLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unholy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
An unholy alliance in the world of share buybacks
That reflects an unholy alliance between shareholder activists, with Carl Icahn to the fore, and chief executives whose pay is linked to earnings per share or total ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
2
Yanis Varoufakis wants to break the 'unholy alliance' of oligarchs …
The barriers to growth in the past were an unholy alliance among oligarchic interests and political parties, scandalous procurement, clientelism, the permanently ... «Business Insider, May 15»
3
Bobby Jindal just splintered the GOP: The unholy alliance between …
Bobby Jindal's op-ed in the New York Times marks the whimpering end of an unholy alliance. The letter itself was a ham-handed attempt to capture the 2016 ... «Salon, Apr 15»
4
Syriza: Tackling Greece's 'unholy alliance'
Syriza: Tackling Greece's 'unholy alliance' ... media, which the new government says has 'an unholy alliance' with business interests that sponge off the state. «Aljazeera.com, Apr 15»
5
BJP-PDP coalition “unholy and opportunist”: Congress
Terming the BJP-PDP alliance as “unholy and opportunist”, the Congress unit in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday accused both the parties of joining hands to ... «The Indian Express, Apr 15»
6
Nick Clegg: Tories and SNP locked in 'unholy alliance'
Nick Clegg has said that the Tories and SNP are locked in an “unholy alliance” to talk up each other's general election prospects but the Nationalists are facing a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
7
'Unholy alliance' of Islamists threatens Sweden: spy chief
"We can see some unholy alliances," he told Reuters. "Before we had terrorists from North Africa, from Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan. But now all these groups ... «Reuters, Mar 15»
8
Unholy row over 'topless nun' poster erected ahead of Pope's visit
Police are investigating a clothing line for blasphemy after a huge billboard featuring a bare-breasted nun was erected ahead of a visit by the Pope. On the ... «mirror.co.uk, Mar 15»
9
The ISIS-US Empire – Their Unholy Alliance Fully Exposed
The ISIS-US Empire – Their Unholy Alliance Fully Exposed. By Joachim Hagopian. Global Research, March 12, 2015. Region: Middle East & North Africa, USA. «Center for Research on Globalization, Mar 15»
10
Susan J. Demas: Unholy alliance between Democrats and Tea Party …
With Proposal 1 of 2015, there's an unholy alliance forming between Tea Partiers and liberals to take it down. What are Democrats' objections? Proposal 1 ... «MLive.com, Feb 15»

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