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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The Telegraph reported lyrics from the canticle written by a chorister included "Lord, how long shall the ungodly triumph?" and "how long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully?"
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
Strangely enough, after the movie, an entirely different person stood in the very same spot, taking a phone call on speakerphone for some ungodly reason.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2025
But they are unavoidable for someone who spends ungodly hours on the internet each day.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2025
The play dramatizes the modern Kafkaesque hell of automated phone systems that make callers wait ungodly amounts of time, to numbing hold music, before speaking to a scripted agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
The stairwell seems to descend forever, stretching into eternity—which means that this ungodly chase might never end.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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
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.
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