Definitions for unholy

unholy un·ho·ly

Spelling: [uhn-hoh-lee]
IPA: /ʌnˈhoʊ li/

Unholy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in unholy (hlnouy).

Definitions for unholy

adjective

  1. not holy; not sacred or hallowed.
  2. impious; sinful; wicked.
  3. Informal. dreadful; ungodly:

Origin of unholy

before 1000; Middle English; Old English unhālig (cognate with Dutch onheilig, Old Norse ūheilagr). See un-1, Examples for unholy

ISIS had summoned him from the Talesh area in the Guilan province north of Tehran, to perform the unholy duty.

The legislator who puts them in another order is doing an unholy and unpatriotic thing.

“I can think about both,” was my unholy, time-serving reply.

Woe betide—but, was there ever such a gathering of unclean, unholy humanity?

They, too, might be banished, if the feeling that they were unholy and abominable could sink into the minds of men.

Where we had once stood spellbound by the sight of the burning towers, we now listened to the unholy roar of the wind.

The declaration that such things are hateful to the Gods, and most abominable and unholy.

To be sure, there is more than enough reality to make the pursuit of peace hit any number of walls, both holy and unholy ones.

For lack of a better term, it was an animal-hostage video, an unholy new mash-up of internet genres.

This unholy marriage of faux country and pseudo hip-hop is literally the worst of both worlds.

Word Value for unholy
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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