unchristian

[ uhn-kris-chuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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 /

First recorded in 1545–55; un- ¹ + Christian

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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