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as in abominable
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Recent Examples of unholy
Although the show’s four-season run wasn’t quite as long as Aguirre-Sacasa had hoped, Shipka’s Sabrina did fulfill her unholy destiny by turning up on her Archie pagemates’ CW show Riverdale a year later.
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Sara Netzley, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2024
Having spent much of her life being forced to pray for salvation from original sin, Carrie is set free by her unholy skill.
—Rafaela Bassili, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
And to stop The 60 from unleashing unholy hell on the planet.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2024
Whole disciplines are dedicated to revealing the subterranean ideology that pervades frothy rom-coms and motor-mad action-adventures: the patriarchal designs in an end reel clinch, the unholy seduction of the internal combustion engine.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
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Sara Netzley, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2024
Having spent much of her life being forced to pray for salvation from original sin, Carrie is set free by her unholy skill.
—Rafaela Bassili, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
And to stop The 60 from unleashing unholy hell on the planet.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 15 Aug. 2024
Whole disciplines are dedicated to revealing the subterranean ideology that pervades frothy rom-coms and motor-mad action-adventures: the patriarchal designs in an end reel clinch, the unholy seduction of the internal combustion engine.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unholy
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But that face is all the better to leer at his creator with, and Ito’s Frankenstein does a wonderful job at capturing a man being chased by his own abominable choices.Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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His new home is a notorious federal jail in New York City known for extreme violence and abominable medical care.Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024
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Through a melodic flow of political parlance and an impressive stable of sprightly actors, creator Debora Cahn stages a spirited play about political relationships — and relationship politics — that never feels stodgy or stupefying, despite an ungodly amount of dialogue.Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
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Williams displayed graphics that showed off confiscated unmarked AR-15s, ammunition, and an ungodly amount of baby oil and lubricant.Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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Marty is prone to do some normie political comedy from time to time and has a history of playing annoying characters with odious personalities.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2024
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After an odious 15-game performance, stained by players lacking discipline and fighting on the sideline, Penner identified the qualities most important for removing the floppy shoes and red nose from the organization’s coaching office.Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2024
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Defense attorneys for Allen have argued authorities arrested the wrong person and claimed that Odinism, a pagan Norse religion that has been linked to White supremacist groups, could be a theory connected to the killings, court documents show.Nicole Chavez, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
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In a memorandum released last year, Allen's attorneys outlined an alternate theory of the girls' killings, saying evidence found at the scene mimicked rituals from a pagan Norse religion called Odinism.Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Oct. 2024
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Denzel Washington was gruesomely low down in the dirt as a cop willing to wield his privilege against vulnerable Black and brown communities in 2001’s admittedly loathsome Training Day.Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2024
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Get this: This loathsome species is getting bigger and nastier thanks to climate change.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2024
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Many Muslims consider depictions of prophets to be blasphemous.Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
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Other critics have called the Trump Bible blasphemous.Richard Lardner and Dake Kang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
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At least Gill thinks that coffee is disgusting too.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Trump is disgusting, unhinged and unfit to represent the United States.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Cincinnati Bengals welcome the media heathen universe for a gab session/sitdown, linen-tablecloth lunch known in This Space as The Mock Turtle Soupfest and Weenie Roast.Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 May 2019
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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 22 Nov. 2024.
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