How to Use unholy in a Sentence
unholy
adjective
- They have spent an unholy amount of money on the project.
- Our finances were an unholy mess.
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What in the unholy gas station tshirt hell is this?!@MattScalici gives this shirt 4 and a half stars.
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Mark Heim,
AL.com,
12 Apr. 2018
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And then there’s the unholy alliance of toilet seats and food.
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Nora Taylor,
Curbed,
2 Jan. 2024
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Played bridge until lights out with the unholy three & was high.
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Phoebe Wall Howard,
Detroit Free Press,
28 May 2018
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The Greek myths alone — the Minotaur, who was the child of an unholy union between a woman and a bull.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2023
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Then, there were the male rompers, and with them, some unholy takes on the male summer statement short.
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Aj Willingham,
CNN,
21 June 2017
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To think what my third-grade self would’ve done if faced with that unholy terror.
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René A. Guzman,
ExpressNews.com,
4 Aug. 2020
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The infant’s eyes appeared to be glowing in the night as if lit with an unholy fire.
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Melissa Locker,
Time,
15 Nov. 2019
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Stage sets for their live shows are designed like an unholy church.
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Matt Wake | [email protected],
al,
1 Sep. 2022
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As the hours ticked down to prime time, the White House prepared its unholy production.
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Evan Osnos,
The New Yorker,
2 June 2020
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Stranger Things actress Sadie Sink as the main girl facing the unholy threats of Shadyside.
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
5 July 2021
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Brunch is a breeding ground for hybrids both holy and unholy.
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Mike Sutter,
San Antonio Express-News,
6 Apr. 2023
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But the union between dresses and jeans, as unholy as some might perceive it, is here to stay.
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Leah Dolan,
CNN,
16 Dec. 2022
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This is an unholy view, like a widescreen television on its side.
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Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
3 May 2018
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Finally, an unholy army of the night that doesn’t need overtime and won’t try to (gasp) unionize!
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BostonGlobe.com,
5 Dec. 2019
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There’s an unholy gnarliness to Ripley that Scott sells well.
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Daniel D'addario,
Variety,
22 May 2024
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The first cracks in this unholy alliance appeared as early as 1938.
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Bruce Bartlett,
The New Republic,
29 June 2020
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Kim Petras would do unholy things to work with Madonna.
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Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
2 Mar. 2023
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The very act felt wrong, and the resulting sandwich tasted even more unholy.
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Washington Post,
8 Feb. 2022
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Had the unholy task of following Josh Allen in all drills and he's competed.
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Tim Bielik,
cleveland.com,
4 Mar. 2018
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These unholy spirits must all depart and flee far away.
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Sam Kestenbaum,
Harper's Magazine,
21 June 2024
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Poe is the unholy fount for much of the horror fiction Flanagan’s adapted in this series so far.
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Phillip MacIak,
The New Republic,
11 Oct. 2023
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There’s still time to salvage the situation and clean up this unholy mess.
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Michael Tomasky,
The New Republic,
19 Aug. 2021
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But the megachurch pastor also happens to be embroiled in this unholy mess.
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Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
9 May 2024
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At a time when the world is an unholy mess, even asking basic questions about the purpose of business has some virtue.
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The Economist,
7 Sep. 2019
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The real question may be this: what will this unholy trinity do with all that free will?
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Joanna Robinson,
HWD,
20 Apr. 2018
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A week before Christmas, Britain found itself in an unholy mess.
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Hasit Shah,
Quartz,
21 Dec. 2020
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Because that performance was something unholy — and not in a good way.
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Vulture,
6 Feb. 2023
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The result is an unholy buffet of squirm-inducing humor, but one that’s built atop a dark reservoir of real empathy.
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Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
16 July 2024
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