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Recent Examples of ungodly
The plan is to engineer it for an ungodly output of 1,500 hp, while keeping its weight just under 1,543 lb (700 kg).
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New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
Each checkpoint starts and ends in the middle of the ocean on the Sinister, which means an ungodly amount of swimming.
—Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2025
This brings us back to Dallas, where the QB is uniquely positioned to leverage the Cowboys into paying him an ungodly amount of money.
—Austin Mock, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
The dreadful inscribing machine and its ungodly purpose are described in meticulous detail—their spectacular efficiency and even more spectacular collapse.
—Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
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New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
Each checkpoint starts and ends in the middle of the ocean on the Sinister, which means an ungodly amount of swimming.
—Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2025
This brings us back to Dallas, where the QB is uniquely positioned to leverage the Cowboys into paying him an ungodly amount of money.
—Austin Mock, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
The dreadful inscribing machine and its ungodly purpose are described in meticulous detail—their spectacular efficiency and even more spectacular collapse.
—Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungodly
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There will be many users who don't like the idea of an AI startup or an unholy alliance of venture capital firms owning Chrome.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
12 Aug. 2025
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Even Scott’s not-quite-prequels, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, were built on the same bones: humans, isolated and vulnerable, picked off one by one by creatures eager to violate their bodies in unholy ways.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
12 Aug. 2025
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That pernicious lack of knowledge, sadly, persists to this day.—
Sahar Mustafah
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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By being seen as seriously pursuing domestic reform, the Administration may be able to garner deals for the phasing out of particularly pernicious ACMDs.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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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
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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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This comes after Sunday's ugly loss to the Indianapolis Colts, a game that saw Hill catch just four passes for 40 yards.—
Drew VonScio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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That’s a hard reality to stomach for Giants fans, who had to watch their offense go 4-for-16 on third downs, pile up just 157 passing yards and finish with six points in an ugly loss to the Commanders.—
Zak Keefer,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Some of my brethren and sis-tren (sis-tren?) in the heathen media tribe get all riled up if a player or coach won’t speak to them.—
Paul Daugherty,
Cincinnati.com,
30 May 2019
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Each essay will identify a contemporary issue, discuss it through the lens of heathen myths, and suggest a solution based on heathen ideals.—
Sigal Samuel,
The Atlantic,
2 Nov. 2017
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But unlike Materialists, those movies—pictures like Leo McCarey’s The Awful Truth or Preston Sturges’ The Palm Beach Story—emerged in a time when Hollywood censors were keeping a close eye on movies’ ideology, determined to protect audiences from unwholesome influences.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
13 June 2025
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By mid-afternoon the weather turned downright unwholesome.—
Arthur Grahame,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2025
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The only true dictionary is the lost one, the dictionary of the language that perished when the impious tower was built: the original language, God’s language.—
Mariana Dimópulos,
Harpers Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
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This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.—
Simone Weil,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
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But, as Shackelford implies, one evil (hatred of Jews) cannot justify another — depraved indifference to the starvation of an entire population.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
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On Wednesday evening, a jury convicted the 29-year-old father, also named Shaquan Butler, of depraved indifference murder, assault and other charges for the boy’s death and for separate injuries inflicted on his younger brother.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Ungodly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungodly. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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