Modifies a noun

• trinity: Possibly judging by an unholy trinity of bad tidings to report.

• alliance: There are of course many cases where business interests do make an unholy alliance with the State.

• mess: The ' unholy mess ' created by Culture Minister.. .

• symmetry: The vast quantity of it on the internet attests to an unholy symmetry between click-and-point and the solitary, masturbatory act itself.

• row: If men prepare for war there is bound to be an unholy row.

• mix: It generally turns out as an unholy mix of Pakistani and Welsh.

Modifying Another Word

• so: Whenever I thought of it I wondered how I ever could have been inspired to do so unholy a thing.

• very: But how can we who are so very unholy become holy?

Used with adjective complement

• consider: It is considered unholy to fast on this day.