Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not like a saint; unholy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Unbecoming to a saint.
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- adjective Not
saintly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most of us are not especially virtuous, and I consider myself to be first among equals in unsaintly behavior.
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But it's not fun finding out how unsaintly and unheroic some of us have been.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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But it's not fun finding out how unsaintly and unheroic some of us have been.
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When she relocates to Ireland, she meets the unsaintly Monica Clifford, a Catholic, who is married to Edmund Clifford, a Protestant.
Protestant Truths and Roman Catholic Errors: Part II of II 2009
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When she relocates to Ireland, she meets the unsaintly Monica Clifford, a Catholic, who is married to Edmund Clifford, a Protestant.
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When she relocates to Ireland, she meets the unsaintly Monica Clifford, a Catholic, who is married to Edmund Clifford, a Protestant.
Academic 2009
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When she relocates to Ireland, she meets the unsaintly Monica Clifford, a Catholic, who is married to Edmund Clifford, a Protestant.
Religion 2009
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Born-again Bush's unsaintly racist smear-fest was intolerable.
Linda Hansen: A Thousand Points of Blight: Lindsey Graham and the McSmear Campaign 2008
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"California," however, was derived from a decidedly unsaintly fictive ruler -- the so-called Queen Califia -- whose women subjects lived without men "except when men were brought in to do what must be done if any land is to be peopled."
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You rouse me now from sumptuous sleep, servants of sin, at this unsaintly hour, this boundary hour of dusk and dawn.
Archive 2007-11-21 PIPROM 2007
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