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Recent Examples of godless Highlights of the book with the proudly, grammatically incorrect title include rants against nature, those godless Hollywood liberals, and how everything is trying to turn red-blooded Americans gay. Brian Boone, Vulture, 18 June 2025 Shortly after hearing the stories of brave and faithful LGBTQ Catholics in Uganda, Pope Francis smartly and compassionately used his voice to warn against the unjust and godless laws. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025 The ranks of the godless have stopped growing for now. Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025 The personal abjection in McGahern’s novels is best understood as an allegory of social despair, which is in turn allegorical of a godless existence. Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for godless
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Adjective
  • Stewart’s switch from his usual snark to imitate Colbert’s buffoonery proved how spiteful and irreligious political humor has become since the left’s worship of Barack Obama and subsequent persecution of President Trump.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 July 2025
  • Silverstein had a much different experience growing up, given the fact that his parents were both Baalei teshuva (irreligious Jews who become more observant later in life).
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • These wooden churches were once common across the country, built when Christianity was still new and pagan traditions lingered.
    David Nikel, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Previous defense motions have also claimed that German and Williams' murders were actually a ritual sacrifice committed by Odinists, members of a pagan religion linked with White nationalism, per CNN.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Godless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/godless. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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