ungodliness

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Recent Examples of ungodliness And to offset what ungodliness might happen in those places, there were churches, more than a dozen of them, practically one on each of Joppa’s 18 streets. Mark Lamster, Dallas Morning News, 23 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungodliness
Noun
  • Jew haters have long alleged the wickedness of Israel and its ties with powerful elites across the world.
    Michael S. Roth, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Speaking after him, another pastor compared Austin to Nineveh, a city associated with wickedness in the Old Testament.
    Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • Our empathy keeps getting used to excuse evil.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The courtroom thriller dramatizes the first international tribunal against surviving Nazi leaders, probing not only their crimes but also the nature of evil itself.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Hank isn’t being accused of mere immorality, after all; he’s being accused of rape, which was also a crime back in Kierkegaard’s days.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Beyond the inherent immorality of thoughtlessly torturing and killing birds and wildlife, Death Pipes are an example of the hidden toll that people and their structures are exacting on nature.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • These smoky, dark dens of gaming iniquity used to be everywhere, enticing you in with flashing marquees, simple synth melodies, and crunchy 8-bit explosions.
    Simon Hill, Wired News, 26 June 2025
  • Thanks to an incessant stream of sensational newspaper articles and a nonstop rumor mill, the public had the idea of Hollywood as a lair of iniquity and debasement.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • As Alfred Hitchcock’s tale of murder and depravity builds to its climax, the film’s ostensible hero, tennis professional Guy Haines (Farley Granger), needs to get out ahead of the psychopath (Robert Walker) who means to frame him for a murder.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Ireland showed its longstanding, if well-earned, animus toward Britain by choosing to be neutral during the Second World War—despite the depravity of Nazism.
    Philip Metres August 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The movie’s grand centerpiece is a dinner party where Theo and Ivy go at each other with such viciousness that their guests can only stand by and watch, aghast.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Aug. 2025

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

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