Adjective : unchristian selfishness. ,She declared she would not pay such an unchristian amount of money for a hotel room. From Dictionary.com.
Yet all desire not to be charged with wrong-doing; they would not they should be called unchristian on account of their conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost] Reference
That's kind of a creepy in a way that i can only call unchristian. From Wordnik.com. [Palestinians get upset that Palestinian youth played music for holocaust survivors...] Reference
She scolded me, saying it was "unchristian" to call on Thanksgiving. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Kerr: Football Coaches are Cut From a Different Cloth] Reference
I meant to say this approach was unchristian, meaning self-serving and selfish. From Wordnik.com. [Balloon Juice » 2005 » April] Reference
I haven't read that review, so I can't say what the writer means exactly by "unchristian". From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
At many points in europe, when the common folk became digusted with the "unchristian" conduct of nobility and clergy, they created their own rebel forms. From Wordnik.com. [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference
This prolonged stagnation and petty watchfulness in what Napoleon himself called that 'unchristian' climate, told cruelly on the health of the ship's company. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin] Reference
'What our enemies call unchristian!'. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
The bishop had a share in this unchristian action. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
We believe his own interpretation altogether unchristian. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
"How unchristian you are, Carol!" she says, smiling under his caress. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
But the practice was condemned as unchristian, by nearly all the principal. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
And if they can prove that any one preaches unchristian doctrine, he shall be punished. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The sum of them merged into an unchristian melee of officiousness and black ingratitude. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
It is well for the marriage-tie to be binding; divorce has generally been deemed unchristian. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Ah! how soon they nourish the briers and thistles of cold indifference and unchristian feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
The citizens of Cork have adopted what I consider a very unchristian and inhuman line of conduct. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
And the sad fact is, that the majority of unchristian young people and many older ones do not decline. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
At this juncture Persis felt a most unchristian reluctance to act the part of ministering angel in any sick room. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Professor lamented bitterly the unchristian features of character which may be found in many people making a great parade of their. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
He told her that he was sorry to see her manifest such an unchristian spirit, and he would show her how burglars ought to be treated. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Hatred between races and nations he holds to be not less unchristian than the hatred which arms the individual against his fellow-man. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
Soldiers under brave, intelligent, and humane officers could never be guilty of such cruel and unchristian conduct as these rebels at Pillow. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
Whatever is free must be left free, so as not to cause vexation to the weak; but against unchristian tyrants a stand must be made for freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
The speakers had been very violent in their denunciations of slavery, and when Mr. Waddington came to speak, he thus rebuked their unchristian spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Then he went on to speak of the many evil, popish, and unchristian things he had seen in his travels as a pedlar over the benighted countries of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
I just sat there watching him, taking a most unchristian joy in his trouble, whatever it was: I have had it in for him ever since -- since you know what. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
The unchristian spirit, that in this age of light and saving grace should be so wanting in brotherly love as to wish to destroy those who harm us, is deprecated. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
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