heathenish
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Abolitionist Rodney French, a Massachusetts merchant and politician, called it the “most disgraceful, atrocious, unjust, detestable, heathenish, barbarous, diabolical, man-degrading, woman-murdering, demon-pleasing, Heaven-defying act ever perpetrated.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2022
Such a spirit, it once was believed, could return to earth, take heathenish possession of an innocent mortal.
From Time Magazine Archive
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What brought these Senatorial headhunters together under the missionary banner of Mr. Hatch was a simple, heathenish fact: they were all interested in breaking up dangerously strong machines in their home States.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Better Joe hath suggested some specific remedies, which Isaac the Joiner decries loudly as the cant of heathenish superstition; and indeed, one wonders at the applications of bone.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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"A vain, trifling, heathenish name!" he interrupted fiercely.
From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.