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as in unholy
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Photo-illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images The unholy alliance between Silicon Valley and the Republican Party is no longer new.—
Jake Lahut,
Wired News,
23 July 2025
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Black Sabbath was so dark, so unholy, that the band’s songs inspired murders and self-harm.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 July 2025
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The direct cost of the tariffs on aerospace is estimated to be as high as $5 Billion, but the real cost is far more pernicious.—
Jerrold Lundquist,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Many scandals arise from the occasion of these activities, and adulteries and other outrageous crimes are committed as a clear offence to God, a very serious danger to the souls of those committing them, and a pernicious example to others.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
27 Mar. 2025
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This attempt to turn back the clock included the purging of Christian texts from schools, the conversion of Christian churches into pagan temples, and religious persecution as it had been practiced in centuries past.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
22 Feb. 2025
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As de Kort tells Live Science, these treasures were buried in several deposits that might have constituted offerings to a pagan god—possibly Wodan, the Germanic persona of the Norse god Odin.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Feb. 2025
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The Navy must address the ugly fact that, despite all the security America can provide, a diverse array of enemies, rivals and criminals can shut the Panama Canal down at virtually any time.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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In the ugliest defeat of a season belatedly compiling them, the New York Mets blew an early 6-0 lead Wednesday to fall to the Atlanta Braves 11-6.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2025
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The Cincinnati Bengals welcome the media heathen universe for a gab session/sitdown, linen-tablecloth lunch known in This Space as The Mock Turtle Soupfest and Weenie Roast.—
Paul Daugherty,
Cincinnati.com,
28 May 2019
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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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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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The series refutes two of Donald Trump’s bigger lies: that climate change is a hoax and undocumented immigrants are depraved.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
21 June 2025
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That's the sort of depraved conditions that drove those in detention there to ten days of hunger strike so far.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Aug. 2025
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“Ungodly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungodly. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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