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unchristian
[ uhn-kris-chuhn ]
adjective
- not conforming to Christian teaching or principles:
unchristian selfishness.
- not Christian.
- Informal. unsuitable for Christians; Christian; uncivilized; objectionable:
She declared she would not pay such an unchristian amount of money for a hotel room.
unchristian
/ ʌnˈkrɪstʃən /
adjective
- not in accordance with the principles or ethics of Christianity
- non-Christian or pagan
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Derived Forms
- unˈchristianly, adverb
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Other Words From
- un·christian·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of unchristian1
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Example Sentences
Why, how she drumbles—I warrant she stops to take a sip on the road, and then you will think you have had unchristian measure.
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
Churches with a strong organisation are especially tempted to this unchristian narrowness and pride.
It is not surprising that such a gratifying, but unchristian proposal, should be adopted by an arbitrary heathen monarch.
A distinguished minister of a highly respectable sect declares the temperance societies unchristian, and even atheistical.
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