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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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The real fiends were the ones who perverted science, who attacked this misunderstood giant out of fear, who branded him as something unholy and unworthy to exist, who gave him life but didn’t give him love.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
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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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But such ads have been shown to support pernicious behaviors and beliefs around food, exercise and body image.—
Mallary Tenore Tarpley,
USA Today,
22 Sep. 2025
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Perhaps the most pernicious aspect of calls for affirming art is their reduction of art to subject matter.—
Garth Greenwell,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Just before the combine, though, Cam, while practicing alone at night, is struck in the head by a strange pagan spirit-slash-mascot that emerges out of the shadows.—
Jake Coyle,
Boston Herald,
19 Sep. 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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As if the Twins hadn’t experienced enough misery, September opened at home with an ugly, four-game sweep by the White Sox, who lost at least 100 games for the third year in a row.—
Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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When the Motion Picture Association of America joined the consortium, in 2014, the fight grew uglier.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
29 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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Advertisement Monster: The Ed Gein Story (Netflix) Date TBA After the success of their foray into the twisted minds of Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez Brothers, Netflix and Ryan Murphy are turning their Monster lens onto arguably one of the most depraved killers in history - Ed Gein.—
Lucy Ford,
Time,
28 Aug. 2025
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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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“Ungodly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungodly. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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