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Heathenish   Listen
adjective
Heathenish  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes."
2.
Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel.
3.
Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.





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"Heathenish" Quotes from Famous Books



... made a laughing protest, but gave a virtual consent by saying, "We must all wrap up well, then." The idea seemed a scatterbrained one to her, and almost heathenish, but if afforded an opportunity for "throwing the young people together," and as such she welcomed it. Mr. Horace Bordenby was a young man with quite substantial prospects, and he had danced with Beryl at a local ...
— The Toys of Peace • Saki
... good manners. Good manners demanded some show of grief at the young man's melancholy end; but, as his lordship pointed out to his weeping daughter, higher reflections ought to triumph over the vulgar instincts of sorrow, and an etiquette almost heathenish. "Let us be thankful," said he, "that poor Beauclerk was spared some lingering malady and the shattering disappointments of a public career. He would not wish us to mourn. And indeed, any undue mourning on your part might ...
— Robert Orange - Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange • John Oliver Hobbes
... The sea dashes wrecks on all four sides of it, but there is no village on its shores so heathenish that if a man is cast upon the beach the inhabitants do not rejoice because ...
— The Face And The Mask • Robert Barr
... better. Well, I'll call you Mary; it's not so heathenish. And tell me what you have thought ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... took place in a field. At first it was only between two who had been miscalling one another; but there was many looking on, and when the town man was like getting the worst of it the others set to, and a most heathenish fray with no sense in it ensued. One man had his arm broken. I mind Hobart the bellman going about ringing his bell and telling all persons to get within doors; but little attention was paid to him, it being notorious that Snecky had ...
— Auld Licht Idylls • J. M. Barrie


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