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How to use unholy in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective

Unholy means not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted. Example: “The priest's unholy behaviour brought the church into disrepute.”

Examples of unholy by meaning

adjectiveNot holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.

  • The priest's unholy behaviour brought the church into disrepute.
  • “Florida has struck an unholy bargain with the Trump administration,” one speaker said.2025 August 1, Jamie Guirola, “'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions”, in NBC News, archived...

adjectiveDreadful, terrible, excessive, or otherwise atrocious.

  • What an unholy mess your room is in!
  • I've been spending an unholy amount of time trying to write a novel!

More sentences with unholy

  • Homelander, Soldier Boy, and Thomas Godolkin form the unholy trinity of Might Makes Right in The Boysverse.2025 October 16, @ColtonDelphy, X (post), archived from the original on 02 May 2026. From the entry Boysverse
  • Dearly benighted, we gather here tonight to join these two in unholy matrimony.2022 August 9, Sam Johnson, Sarah Naftalis, Marika Sawyer, Paul Simms, “The Wedding” (14:34 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows…. From the entry benighted
  • In fact, I never found the food world's unholy grail on offer anywhere in the land.2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry munchy box
  • “Bwa-ha-ha-ha,” came the unholy mirth from the cold white mask.2005, Ron Fortier, Brother Grim, page 142. From the entry bwahaha
  • Talbot was a perfectly nice woman, and the students she axe-murdered for her unholy rituals weren't close acquaintances anyway.2004, Jeff Strand, Out of Whack, page 21. From the entry axe-murder
  • Self-appointed Comstocks among us have for years been dedicated to the unholy quest of seeking out and destroying books considered unfavorable.1967, Samuel W. Taylor, “Peculiar People, Positive Thinkers and the Prospects of Mormon Literature,”, in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon…. From the entry Comstock
  • May God's curse rest upon the arrogant men and the unholy ambitions which let loose this horror upon humanity!1916, Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Glimpse of the French Line”, in A Visit to Three Fronts. From the entry let loose
  • I was, if you will, the contingent phenomenon, a potential lurking in the unholy fug of a revelrous night spun out of control.2006, M. G. Vassanji, When She Was Queen, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry revelrous
  • All this sounds like an unholy mess if one wants to produce a consistent, long-term database of biodiversity relevant information the world over.2005, Geoffrey C. Bowker, “The Mnemonic Deep: The Importance of an Unruly Past”, in Memory Practices in the Sciences (Inside Technology)…. From the entry panopticon
  • In her essay "Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View," Alice Walker deems Hurston, Billie Holiday, and Bessie Smith "an unholy trinity."2005, Cheryl A. Wall, Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition. From the entry unholy trinity
  • So what would Weil make of the “attention economy” — a multi-trillion-dollar industry that has arisen in the last twenty years, the unholy alliance of big tech and consumer capitalism?2024 September 12, D. Graham Burnett, Peter Schmidt, “Turning the tide on “human fracking””, in The Daily Princetonian. From the entry human fracking

Meaning of unholy

  1. adjective Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.
  2. adjective Dreadful, terrible, excessive, or otherwise atrocious.

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Questions about unholy in a sentence

How do you use unholy in a sentence?
Unholy is used as an adjective. For example: “The priest's unholy behaviour brought the church into disrepute.”
What is a short sentence with unholy?
“What an unholy mess your room is in!”
What does unholy mean?
Unholy means not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.

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