1 dangerous; likely to be harmful:
an unholy alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry
2 not respecting the laws of a religion: (figurative) He took an unholy delight in her discomfort.
OPPHOLY
3 [onlybeforenoun] (informal) used to emphasize how bad sth is:
She wondered how she had got into this unholy mess. * There was an unholy row going on next door.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for unholy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is unholy a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, unholy is tagged as adjective.
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