1. heathenish - Adjective
2. heathenish - Adjective Satellite
Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens.
Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel.
Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.
Source: Webster's dictionaryUN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish. Ambrose Bierce
As we passed under the last bridge over the canal, just before reaching the Merrimack, the people coming out of church paused to look at us from above, and apparently, so strong is custom, indulged in some heathenish comparisons; but we were the truest observers of this sunny day. Henry David Thoreau
Monarchy, he said, was preposterous, and it had a heathenish origin. Source: Internet
In a similar vein, poet John Greenleaf Whittier detested what he deemed to be the "wicked" and "heathenish" message of Walden, claiming that Thoreau wanted man to "lower himself to the level of a woodchuck and walk on four legs." Source: Internet