- 1dangerous; likely to be harmful an unholy alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry
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- 2not respecting the laws of a religion opposite holy
- 3[only before noun] (informal) used to emphasize how bad something is She wondered how she had gotten into this unholy mess. There was an unholy racket going on next door.
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