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Recent Examples of godless 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 Clearly the most godless Man of God Garfield has played — the one-two of playing a televangelist here and a Mormon cop in Under the Banner of Heaven makes for a religious diptych that’s uniquely American. tick, tick … BOOM! Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024 His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism. Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024 My apartment—formerly a godless zone for only the profane, not the sacred—now feels holy. Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for godless
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Adjective
  • 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
  • Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • This attempt to turn back the clock included the purging of Christian texts from schools, the conversion of Christian churches into pagan temples, and religious persecution as it had been practiced in centuries past.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Over time, my conquistadors retired, and my pagan temples got demolished to make way for grocery stores.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025

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“Godless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/godless. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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