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Recent Examples of unholy
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel fuses Gothic horror with unholy scientific experiments, and in del Toro's hands, the graphic details of Oscar Isaac's mad creation are on full display.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 27 Dec. 2025
So why is Prasad’s allegation that a very small number of kids have died from COVID shots being treated as some unholy aberration?
—Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
That unholy alliance, which is an unlikely alliance, is anchored first and foremost to the loathing of Western civilization.
—Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 19 Nov. 2025
That means a huge payday for the shaman and his team, but no amount of money is worth the unholy hell unleashed.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 27 Dec. 2025
So why is Prasad’s allegation that a very small number of kids have died from COVID shots being treated as some unholy aberration?
—Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
That unholy alliance, which is an unlikely alliance, is anchored first and foremost to the loathing of Western civilization.
—Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 19 Nov. 2025
That means a huge payday for the shaman and his team, but no amount of money is worth the unholy hell unleashed.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unholy
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Naperville needs to focus now on building a green/clean energy infrastructure to be sustainable so the city is ready when its abominable coal contract with the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency is finished.—
Naperville Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2026
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With a wild-card playoff berth secured, zero chance to win the AFC East title and the Jets among the most abominable teams of the 21st century, the Bills’ lineup was loaded with backups.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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The Dolphins, of course, owe Tua Tagovailoa an ungodly amount of money.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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Whether or not the show is about pandemics, AI, or some ungodly combination of the two, one thing’s for certain—there’s never a better time to travel than during the apocalypse.—
Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Jan. 2026
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The sitting president of the United States used social media to depict a former president and his wife with the most odious racist trope imaginable.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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These and other similarly odious utterances—questioning the Holocaust, celebrating Hitler, frequently using the N-word—meant that Fuentes was no stranger to criticism from fellow right-wingers.—
Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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The group – which touts itself as a pagan collective that worships Norse gods – also took credit for originally catapulting Springfield onto the national stage by amplifying ugly memes about the Haitians.—
Caitlin Hu,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
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At the bottom of the composition is the figure of Charon, a personage from Greek mythology who rowed souls over the river Styx to enter the pagan underworld.—
Virginia Raguin,
The Conversation,
19 Feb. 2026
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Most of Becket’s relatives are loathsome (Grace is funny as a fraudulent self-help quasi-religious guru), though his uncle (the great Bill Camp) is a decent fellow who wants to lend Becket a hand.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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In the show’s first episode, Jaquel Spivey, who starred in the Broadway production of A Strange Loop, a musical about the experience of being a self-hating fat gay Black man, is introduced as a loathsome incel.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2026
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Ja Morant Let’s get blasphemous.—
Law Murray,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
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The Satanic Verses stirred controversy after some considered its portrayal of the Prophet Muhammed blasphemous.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
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Just last week the president tweeted a vile and disgusting image of President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and refuses to apologize.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
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So the disgusting attempt to rewrite history – won’t help.—
Grace Gilson,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Feb. 2026
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My dad was raised Methodist and comes from a very devout Methodist family — I was baptized twice because both of them thought the other thing was heathen.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
14 Oct. 2025
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Some of my brethren and sis-tren (sis-tren?) in the heathen media tribe get all riled up if a player or coach won’t speak to them.—
Paul Daugherty,
Cincinnati.com,
30 May 2019
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“Unholy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unholy. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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