ungodliness

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Recent Examples of ungodliness And to offset what ungodliness might happen in those places, there were churches, more than a dozen of them, practically one on each of Joppa’s 18 streets. Mark Lamster, Dallas Morning News, 23 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungodliness
Noun
  • The tinny, atmospheric beat escalates the wickedness, like a party that ends with a seance.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Or watch Margaret Hamilton terrorize Dorothy before getting the backstory behind her wickedness.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Here, doing nothing when evil is committed is its own form of evil.
    Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other and their own personal demons on the path to salvation.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Now, more than two years after the Evros Thirty-eight made landfall on the islet, Little Maria is practically a household name, synonymous with refugees’ immorality and the malfeasance of NGOs and journalists.
    Lauren Markham, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • At its core, moral outrage is a response to the feeling that others are acting immorally and that their immorality is destroying society.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This book makes the case that there is a subtler iniquity in the sins of forgetting, in papering over, in moving in and moving on.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Not always, of course; like any subset of humanity, churches are just as likely to be filled with iniquity, pettiness, and spite.
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Luther, like Breaking Bad and other shows of that era, was very dark and plumbed the depths of human depravity.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
  • But what starts out as an easy payday soon becomes an unsettling journey into the deepest pits of human depravity.
    S.A. Cosby, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025

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“Ungodliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungodliness. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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