unchristian
/uhn-kris-chuhn/US // ʌnˈkrɪs tʃən //UK // (ʌnˈkrɪstʃən) //
不虔诚,非基督徒,不虔诚的,非基督教徒
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : not conforming to Christian teaching or principles: unchristian selfishness.
- : not Christian.
- : Informal. unsuitable for Christians; uncivilized; objectionable: She declared she would not pay such an unchristian amount of money for a hotel room.
Examples
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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