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unchristianlike

Definitions

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  • adjective Not Christianlike.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ Christianlike

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Examples

  • But I will not support it with my hard-earned money, especially given the organization's disturbing history, coercive methods, and unchristianlike intolerance.

    The Salvation Army's Red Kettle of Trouble 2008

  • This may be uncharitable and unchristianlike, but people have got to accept the situation as they find it.

    A Pirate of Parts Richard Neville

  • They were all wild-looking creatures, their countenances as thoroughly unchristianlike as could be conceived.

    Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians Edward Francis Wilson

  • Let the Unionist Party hesitate before it seeks to revive this hideous, utterly irrational and most unchristianlike spirit at the very heart of the British Empire.

    The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe Various

  • Many timid-hearted Christians in the present age of religious toleration think that it is almost unchristianlike for us to bring up and lay to the charge of Rome such a sweeping indictment for those massacres of Christians in a barbarous age.

    The Last Reformation 1913

  • 'The judge said I should be put into a barrel or cask _driven full of nails with their points inward and so rolled to death_; but the council of war taking it into consideration, thought it too terrible a death and too much unchristianlike; so they agreed to hang me.'

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

  • A child in fear of its father! how unchristianlike!

    The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Charles Ebert Orr 1897

  • Now it would be very natural to suppose that a young lady with a grain of sense left in her brains, would, in cooler moments, have been rather glad than otherwise, to have such a restless, unhappy, unchristianlike letter hopelessly lost.

    Ester Ried 1841-1930 Pansy 1885

  • "And not contented with this (he) afterward came up upon the deck and there before the boatswain and certain of us did most unchristianlike speak these words: that if he might but live to have the opportunity to kill the said Tavernour he would think it to be the happiest day that ever he saw in his life, an it were but with a knife."

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • 'Twas very unchristianlike, but I was very sore with the man for his pig-headedness, and then he so bewailed the loss of his finger; never thinking of the fact that the boatswain had all but lost an eye, but had never even murmured at his hard luck.

    "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 Louis Becke 1884

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