unscriptural
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- unscripturally adverb
Example Sentences
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I wear pants to work as a seminary president almost every day, and no one has ever accused me of donning transgressive unscriptural attire.
From Salon
His early memoirs find a balance between outrage and subtle irony—those angry, understated phrases: “an unscriptural institution”; “the thoughtful know the rest”—in describing the wrenching effects of slavery on the human soul.
From The New Yorker
In the course of time, however, feeling that that mode of association or the consolidation of churches was unscriptural and ought to be laid aside, they changed their organization to that of an abolition society.
From Project Gutenberg
The Sepulchre is in the frequent unscriptural shape of a table monument.
From Project Gutenberg
Unscriptural, un-skrip′tū-ral, adj. not in with Scripture.—adv.
From Project Gutenberg
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