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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. 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.