unseelie

British  

/ ʌnˈsiːlɪ /

plural noun

1. evil malevolent fairies

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adjective

1. 1. of or belonging to the unseelie

   2. evil and malevolent like the unseelie

      unseelie wights

Etymology

Origin of unseelie

Old English unsǣlig ; compare _seelie and _silly

Example Sentences

Certainly for most sensible secular scientific-minded people, to say that our era’s close encounters are of the same type as encounters with the unseelie court of faerie is to say that they are all equally imaginary, proceeding from internalized fancies and hallucinatory substances and late-night wrong turns, plus some common evolved subconscious that fears shape-shifting tricksters in modern Nevada no less than in the mists around Ben Bulben.

From New York Times

There were, as in all communities, a good and a bad section, known as the "seelie" and the "unseelie court."

From Project Gutenberg

The unseelie court, on the other hand, from those who offended them, stole their goods and killed their cattle by elf-shot, occasionally found on the moors or turned up in the fields now-a-days, but which science ruthlessly asserts to be the arrow-heads of our prehistoric ancestors.

From Project Gutenberg

The reader is propelled into the world of sinister fairies, or 'fays', and the Seelie and Unseelie courts.

From The Guardian