ungodly hour
noun
: a time of day that is unreasonably early or late
Who would call at this ungodly hour?
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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.
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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
On a recent Sunday evening, during dinner at the ungodly hour of 5 P.M., a surprising number of tables were full.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
The ceremony begins at the ungodly hour of 6 a.m. EST.
—Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 6 May 2023
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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
On a recent Sunday evening, during dinner at the ungodly hour of 5 P.M., a surprising number of tables were full.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
The ceremony begins at the ungodly hour of 6 a.m. EST.
—Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 6 May 2023
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“Ungodly hour.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ungodly%20hour. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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