as in atheistical
lacking religious emotions, principles, or practices
treated the God-fearing and the godless with equal respect and compassion
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His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.
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Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
My apartment—formerly a godless zone for only the profane, not the sacred—now feels holy.
—Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024
That will give him the ability to rail against the godless heathens and Commies who have taken over the courts and spurned this nation’s supposedly integral Christian character, which is of course what this is really all about.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
Out of this kinetic fusion came an art form that’s been called every name in the book—from vulgar and godless, by the Catholic Church, exploitative, by progressive intellectuals, to vibrant and authentic, by its fans.
—Sofia Perez, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2023
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Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
My apartment—formerly a godless zone for only the profane, not the sacred—now feels holy.
—Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024
That will give him the ability to rail against the godless heathens and Commies who have taken over the courts and spurned this nation’s supposedly integral Christian character, which is of course what this is really all about.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
Out of this kinetic fusion came an art form that’s been called every name in the book—from vulgar and godless, by the Catholic Church, exploitative, by progressive intellectuals, to vibrant and authentic, by its fans.
—Sofia Perez, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2023
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“Godless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/godless. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.
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