![]() ![]() (10) There appear to be about twenty of them, and they make an unholy racket. (9) What worries is when you try to describe it and you think, that does sound like an unholy mess. (8) A person will be judged unholy if he does not have money, and hypocrisy will be accepted as virtue. (7) Since then, the Jamaican media has continued to develop its unholy alliance with the dancehall community, one now characterised by extreme homophobia and anti-law and order sentiments. (6) It was difficult for a man considering all kinds of violence sinful to conceive that there did exist some use for it in the universe which was not unholy and sacrilegious. (5) We've dismissed it all as something below contempt, even evil, utterly unholy. (4) No matter what side of the political spectrum that you sit on, this is an unholy mess. #Unholy meaning free(3) She shows that the austere Pope Urban, who slept on bare boards and did his best to free the church from its unholy alliance with the mercenaries, also had a cupboard filled with 1,080 ermine skins for his personal use. (2) The inconsistencies of this unholy mix were only too clear. I fail to see how that's at all inappropriate for somebody who's involved in a romance with his dead wife . . .(1) They can't expect anything better from this unholy alliance. In fact, if you take the second and third senses of unholy and combine them with the first and second senses of intrigue, then what you end up with is:įrom that day, it was not love that drove him forward, but a very unpleasant and secret love affair that was deserving of censure. I don't understand where your teacher gets the idea that that you are saying "his secret plan was driven forward by his secret plan." Yes, I follow the "secret plan" part from intrigue but your sentence doesn't use the word intrigue twice, nor does it you use "secret plan" at all. None of these things specifically relate to the Devil and, even if one of them did, that doesn't exclude the other senses-or the fact that you could be writing in a metaphorical sense.ī : the practice of engaging in secret schemes Merriam-Webster gives three senses of unholy:ġ : showing disregard for what is holy : wickedįurther, its first definition of holy is:Įxalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness Her definition of intrigue agrees with my dictionary, but it still feels correct to me in the context.Īs for unholy, the 2nd definition on the linked website uses it in the same way I do, except it says it must describe a group of people.ĭoes this sentence make sense in English, and does it mean what I want it to? "Intrigue" as a noun means "a secret plan", and it makes no sense to say his secret plan was driven forward by his secret plan."Unholy" means 'against a religion', and would give a sense of 'driven forward by the devil', which is not what I wanted.My teacher took off points for the phrase "unholy intrigue", saying two things were wrong with it: What I wanted to convey with this sentence is that, at one point, his project was driven forward by morbid curiosity and he no longer cared about getting his wife back. ![]() I wrote a story about a man who brings his wife back from the dead, and one of the lines in the story was:įrom that day, it was not love that drove him forward, but unholy intrigue. In my English language class, we had to write short, scary stories. ![]()
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