A young woman most penitently confessed to a friend of mine that an unholy desire to read women's magazines was her besetting 'temptation'.
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Unholy
//ʌnˈhəʊli//
Synonyms for "unholy" (67 found)
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Related words (33)
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Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
6 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 15 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀνόσιος adj (not holy; evil)
Bulgarian
1 entries- нечестив adj (not holy; evil)
Dutch
4 entries- boos adj (not holy; evil)
- boosaardig adj (not holy; evil)
- euvel adj (not holy; evil)
- kwaad adj (not holy; evil)
Finnish
4 entries- epäpyhä adj (not holy; evil)
- jumalaton adj (not holy; evil)
- jumalaton adj (dreadful)
- kaamea adj (dreadful)
French
4 entries- atroce adj (dreadful)
- foutu adj (dreadful)
- impie adj (not holy; evil)
- maléfique adj (not holy; evil)
German
1 entries- unheilig adj (not holy; evil)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃 adj (not holy; evil)
Hungarian
4 entries- borzalmas adj (dreadful)
- elvetemült adj (not holy; evil)
- gonosz adj (not holy; evil)
- irtózatos adj (dreadful)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- onheilich adj (not holy; evil)
Romanian
3 entries- afurisit adj (not holy; evil)
- nesfânt adj (not holy; evil)
- rău adj (not holy; evil)
Russian
2 entries- нечестивый adj (not holy; evil)
- порочный adj (not holy; evil)
Spanish
2 entries- horroroso adj (dreadful)
- impío adj (not holy; evil)
Telugu
2 entries- అపవిత్ర adj (not holy; evil)
- అపవిత్రమైన adj (not holy; evil)
Turkish
4 entries- fena adj (not holy; evil)
- kem adj (not holy; evil)
- kötü adj (not holy; evil)
- şeytanî adj (not holy; evil)
Volapük
1 entries- nesaludik adj (not holy; evil)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Begone, wretched spawn of Hell's unholy bowels!
Source: tatoeba (2904371)
Sami embodied that unholy mix of holy water and drugs.
Source: tatoeba (6575393)
After eating at the pizzeria, Tom got a case of unholy diarrhea.
Source: tatoeba (7070876)
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