Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Contrary to the laws or principles of Christianity; unbecoming to Christians.
  • In an unchristian manner; in a manner contrary to Christian principles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an unchristian manner.
  • adjective Unchristian.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an unchristian way.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not becoming to or like a Christian

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

unchristian +‎ -ly

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word unchristianly.

Examples

  • The suggested Bruderschaft has been notably lacking for most of the last two millennia for that matter the Christians have often treated each other most unchristianly.

    Precision in generalizations 2006

  • They have never meant these women any ill -- they would not harm them for the world -- but they are conscious of a selfish and most unchristianly pleasure in these conquests of female natures -- these parlor triumphs, God forgive them!

    Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb

  • I had a welcome minute in which to contemplate the victims of my prowess and to exult unchristianly in their scars.

    The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936

  • I must say to you that it is unchristianly arrogance.

    1492, 1922

  • I must say to you that it is unchristianly arrogance.

    1492 Mary Johnston 1903

  • Two years have failed to restore lost confidence in such vile, unchristianly emissaries.

    Africa and African Methodism. Alfred Lee Ridgel 1896

  • Such teaching is very unchristianly, but very peculiar to white Americans especially.

    Africa and African Methodism. Alfred Lee Ridgel 1896

  • And who can tell but that his utterance thus unchristianly proclaimed did not help to sway the minds of the

    The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889

  • He spelt the puckers of her forehead to mean that she feared he might be speaking unchristianly.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • He spelt the puckers of her forehead to mean that she feared he might be speaking unchristianly.

    The Egoist George Meredith 1868

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.