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Recent Examples of ungodly
Mainly because soul tie enthusiasts don’t do a good job delineating the difference between godly and ungodly connections.
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Dominique Fluker, Essence, 27 Mar. 2025
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).
—New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
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
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
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Dominique Fluker, Essence, 27 Mar. 2025
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).
—New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungodly
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But who doubts that money has an unholy influence on our elections?—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
24 Oct. 2025
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This man throws 8 ounces of a baked chicken breast into a blender with water and a lemonade Crystal Light packet, and then chugs the unholy concoction.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Oct. 2025
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Worse, many engaged in a particularly rash form of gaming, making high-speed wagers on in-game action — a pernicious new product called microbetting.—
Paul Solotaroff,
Rolling Stone,
12 Oct. 2025
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Yet his film, even in its omissions, brims with strategic ingenuity and daring, cinematic and political—to fight other films’ empty fantasies with substantial ones, to battle other advocates’ pernicious myths with virtuous ones.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2025
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Both Leader and Walton’s works saw a rise in popularity in the 70s as many women became interested in pagan religions, which often depicted female mythological figures as powerful and complex.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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When a rigid, devoutly Christian cop (Edward Woodward) arrives in search of a missing girl, he's horrified by the island's embrace of pagan rituals.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Oct. 2025
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Vanderbilt survived a Hail Mary against Missouri, while Memphis bounced back from its ugly loss to UAB to defeat South Florida and regain its spot as the leading Group of Five playoff contender.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Oct. 2025
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But two familiar problems reared their ugly heads.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
26 Oct. 2025
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My dad was raised Methodist and comes from a very devout Methodist family — I was baptized twice because both of them thought the other thing was heathen.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
14 Oct. 2025
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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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But no, a single depraved millionaire really did spend years loaning out trafficked teenagers to his rich and famous friends.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
25 Oct. 2025
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Yet, Trump, who did bring about peace and the freeing of all the remaining Israeli hostages held in inhumane captivity by depraved Hamas terrorists, was ignored.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Ungodly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungodly. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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