ungodly
Americanadjective
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not accepting God or a particular religious doctrine; irreligious; atheistic.
an ungodly era.
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sinful; wicked; impious; not conforming to religious tenets or canons.
an ungodly life.
- Synonyms:
- blasphemous, corrupt, evil, profane
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outrageous; shocking; dreadful; insufferable.
an ungodly roar; an ungodly hour to drop in.
adjective
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wicked; sinful
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( as collective noun; preceded by the )
the ungodly
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informal unseemly; outrageous (esp in the phrase an ungodly hour )
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Stack ladyfingers with whole-berry cranberry sauce, vanilla pudding, and whipped cream flecked with a decidedly ungodly amount of orange zest.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025
"I don't think it's really helpful to put people here till some ungodly hour," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
But they are unavoidable for someone who spends ungodly hours on the internet each day.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2025
We know that he’s wasted ungodly sums of money and attention on the company that used to be named Twitter.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2024
Momma hadn’t told me to turn them on because she didn’t want to believe that night had fallen hard and Bailey was still out in the ungodly dark.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
And there you are, high and dry, with fifteen miles of the ungodliest, tire-chewinest road on either side of yuh that America can show.
From Casey Ryan by Bower, B. M.
Nigh unto thee, though thou professest to be the ungodliest one, I feel a hale and holy odour of long benedictions: I feel glad and grieved thereby.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Yes, comfort yourself on that particular, O ungodliest divine man! thou cantest never.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas
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