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# unholy

«unholy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Wicked or sinful, not holy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wicked or sinful, not holy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unholy/#m1)

2) (informal) Very bad or great: «an unholy mess». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unholy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales the spell or creature is wicked and evil; in everyday talk it describes a mess or noise

### examples

- The witch cast an unholy spell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unholy/#x1)
- There was an unholy racket in the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unholy/#x2)
- The ghost wandered from its grave on unholy nights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unholy/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unholy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unholy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.