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"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "epäpyhä"
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"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "unheilig"
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"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "unairkns",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃"
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"sense": "not holy; evil",
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"word": "అపవిత్రమైన"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "dreadful",
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"word": "atroce"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "нечестив"
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"sense": "not holy; evil",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "not holy; evil",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "slecht"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "onheilig"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "epäpyhä"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "jumalaton"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
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},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "maléfique"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "unheilig"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "unairkns",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃"
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "anósios",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "ἀνόσιος"
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{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "onheilich"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "rău"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "nesfânt"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "afurisit"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nečestivyj",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "нечестивый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poročnyj",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "порочный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "impío"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "apavitramaina",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "అపవిత్రమైన"
},
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"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "apavitra",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "అపవిత్ర"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "kötü"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "fena"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "kem"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "şeytanî"
},
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"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "not holy; evil",
"word": "nesaludik"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "dreadful",
"word": "jumalaton"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "dreadful",
"word": "kaamea"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "dreadful",
"word": "sacré"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "dreadful",
"tags": [
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"word": "foutu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "dreadful",
"word": "atroce"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dreadful",
"word": "horroroso"
}
],
"word": "unholy"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.