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Recent Examples of unchristian
On Tuesday, the House voted on a last-minute amendment attached to the budget bill that removed the $250,000 that was to go Memphis. House lawmakers from Memphis responded by calling it vile, racist and unchristian.
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Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unchristian
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Experts told PolitiFact such narratives painting Haiti as a barbarous country are not new and are racist attempts to dehumanize Haitians.—
Jeff Cercone,
Austin American-Statesman,
14 Sep. 2024
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Treating barbarous body horror as something embedded in us deeper than the mutual love of a partner, especially when it’s done without the theatrical or exploitation trappings, makes for one of the New French Extremity’s most troubling works.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2024
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The plan is to engineer it for an ungodly output of 1,500 hp, while keeping its weight just under 1,543 lb (700 kg).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
2 Jan. 2025
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This brings us back to Dallas, where the QB is uniquely positioned to leverage the Cowboys into paying him an ungodly amount of money.—
Austin Mock,
The Athletic,
8 Aug. 2024
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Under the Omanis, Zanzibar grew rich selling spices, ivory, and slaves, mostly non-Muslims from the interior, whom the island’s élites derided as washenzi, or uncivilized.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2022
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Forcing a woman to choose between jail and carrying her rapist's baby is uncivilized and medieval.—
CNN,
CNN,
27 June 2022
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Seal was playing from the same dressing room ceiling that bore down unholy lighting.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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Worse is the tech moguls’ unholy financial influence.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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Seeing her thick curly hair as something undesirable and taboo she, like many Black woman, tried to tame it and fit into the old American beauty mold of straight and manageable.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
27 Jan. 2025
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Cowboys now own longest NFC championship game drought: The Commanders are in the NFC title game for the first time since the 1991 season, meaning their longtime rivals now are owners of an undesirable streak.—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
20 Jan. 2025
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This is due to Emilia Pérez lead Karla Sofía Gascón’s highly offensive and frankly vile tweets unearthed from several years back, which first emerged late last week.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
7 Feb. 2025
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The verdict: Its flavor was nothing short of despicably vile, which made Orly’s nail-biting polish both a gift and a curse along my journey to end my bad habit.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
30 Jan. 2025
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This approach will minimize the overproduction of unwanted, non-trendy products, thereby reducing wastage.—
Ethan Stone,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2025
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The authorities have started drawing red lines around the unwanted unverifiables—literally.—
Adam Begley,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
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Beyond limiting access to care, the efforts in both states have created an environment in which transgender residents in Kansas City — and sometimes the doctors who provide their health care — can feel unwelcome.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
6 Feb. 2025
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Women writers and readers, much less editors or publishers, were often unwelcome.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Unchristian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unchristian. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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