heathenish
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Donna Dolores' concealment of her face is not to heighten or tempt the masculine curiosity, but alas!—poor child—is only to hide the heathenish tattooings that deface her cheek.
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
