ungodly hour

noun

: a time of day that is unreasonably early or late
Who would call at this ungodly hour?

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Sometimes an unusual celestial sight will take place at a rather ungodly hour. Joe Rao, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025 To be honest, I was absolutely pissed at the colleague for calling at such an ungodly hour. R29 Team, Refinery29, 12 Sep. 2025 An interview that was supposed to start close to noon got pushed up, on very short notice, to the ungodly hour of 6:20 a.m. Sean Gregory, Time, 16 Apr. 2025 There’s this old Dunkin Donuts commercial where an alarm buzzes at an ungodly hour of the morning. Christine Yu, Outside Online, 17 Mar. 2025 God bless this West Side taqueria, which serves food until midnight on weeknights and until the ungodly hour of 4:30 a.m. on weekends. David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025 But while the official version speaks of a very hungover (and even feverish) Lou Reed being thoroughly incapacitated after having returned to the hotel at an ungodly hour, some branches of the legend claim label representatives actually lost him, and that for a while he was thought gone forever. Ana Leorne, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024 And so it’s been fun -- aside from waking up at an ungodly hour to drive to one corner of the state to the other. Abc News, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2024 With no lifts spinning at this ungodly hour, Ski Utah had permission to drive a van up a Brian Head service road to the top of a short feeder run called Blackfoot Access. Tim Neville, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2023

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“Ungodly hour.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ungodly%20hour. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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