Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.
The priest's unholy behaviour brought the church into disrepute.
Dreadful, terrible, excessive, or otherwise atrocious.
What an unholy mess your room is in!
From Middle English unholi, unhaliȝ, from Old English unhāliġ, from Proto-Germanic *unhailagaz, equivalent to un- + holy. Cognate with Scots unhaly, Dutch onheilig, German Low German unhillig, German ...
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