unchristly

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English

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Etymology

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un- +‎ Christ +‎ -ly

Adjective

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unchristly (comparative more unchristly, superlative most unchristly)

  1. Synonym of unchristlike.
    • 1897, Brethren Church, Ashland, Ohio, Brethren Evangelist Vol. XIX November 17, 1897 No. 44[1]:
      [] the indistinctness of the line of demarkation between the professed friends of Christ and the unchristly world; []
    • 1907, Rev. Gearge Henry Hubbard, The Teachings Of Jesus In Parables[2]:
      this habit was inherited from one’s grandfather and that unchristly spirit from a long forgotten great-aunt
    • 2017, Dearborn, Mary V., author, Ernest Hemingway : a biography[3]:
      Ernest confided, “Am in such an unchristly gigantic jam of every bloody kind now that it’s practically comic.”