What does the word unearthly mean?
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Part of speech: adjective
Usage examples for unearthly
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Rowland, left alone, stood there for an instant, intolerably puzzled, face to face with Miss Light's poodle, who had set up a sharp, unearthly cry of sympathy with his mistress. – Roderick Hudson by Henry James
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Something unnatural, or at least unearthly, must be near him! – The Flight of the Shadow by George MacDonald
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A sound that partook of laughter, but was so unearthly in its malignant glee that it seemed not to come from a human lip, answered the Vala; and as the laugh died the witch rose, and said: Go and question thy dead, O Morthwyrtha! – Harold, Complete The Last Of The Saxon Kings by Edward Bulwer-Lytton