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as in unholy
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as in pernicious
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Recent Examples of ungodly
Oh, and he’s taken an ungodly number of hits while barely missing a single snap.
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Kevin Fishbain, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
Through a melodic flow of political parlance and an impressive stable of sprightly actors, creator Debora Cahn stages a spirited play about political relationships — and relationship politics — that never feels stodgy or stupefying, despite an ungodly amount of dialogue.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
Williams displayed graphics that showed off confiscated unmarked AR-15s, ammunition, and an ungodly amount of baby oil and lubricant.
—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Like a lot of us, Carlo Acutis spent an ungodly amount of his life staring at screens.
—Kyle MacNeill, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2024
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Kevin Fishbain, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
Through a melodic flow of political parlance and an impressive stable of sprightly actors, creator Debora Cahn stages a spirited play about political relationships — and relationship politics — that never feels stodgy or stupefying, despite an ungodly amount of dialogue.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
Williams displayed graphics that showed off confiscated unmarked AR-15s, ammunition, and an ungodly amount of baby oil and lubricant.
—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Like a lot of us, Carlo Acutis spent an ungodly amount of his life staring at screens.
—Kyle MacNeill, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungodly
Adjective
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This unholy morass of statutes, regulations, and court rulings creates confusion and uncertainty for tens of millions of student borrowers.—
Preston Cooper,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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For a while, the march of communism and the rise of the movies proceeded independently, but the paths later converged -- an unholy alliance.—
Peter Tonguette,
National Review,
20 Feb. 2025
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Academic opportunists the past week showed once more how pernicious, naïve misinformation can catch fire and consume the truth, especially when dressed with the veneer of academic credibility.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
2 Feb. 2023
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Most of us can agree the world is in a perilous state, with natural disasters multiplying, pernicious new viruses continually emerging, the planet steadily overheating, and wars raging in constant rotation.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Feb. 2023
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Allen's defense team aggressively pushed their theory that Odinists, members of a pagan Norse religion hijacked by white nationalists, killed the girls during a sacrificial ritual in the woods.—
Kristine Phillips,
The Indianapolis Star,
13 Nov. 2024
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There’s a lot of folklore, superstition and myth — pagan elements really, that are folded into how people actually practice religion in Ireland.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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Or the constitutional dystopia in which we are now caught, beside which even the ugliest onscreen villainy pales into insignificance?—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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The advanced metrics paint an ugly picture for the Suns as well over that span: 114.0 OffRtg (11th), 117.3 DefRtg (27th), -3.2 NetRtg (21st).—
Evan Sidery,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 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
Adjective
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As for the place, its veneer of comfortable tourism doesn’t hide the air of something unwholesome, especially when female guests start randomly throwing up.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2024
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Less visibly, Manton operated a side business with a more unwholesome objective: cashing in on his status and power as a judge.—
Time,
Time,
25 July 2023
Adjective
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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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Both narratives, private and public, differently restrict our access, so the ideal historian will need great tact and an impious curiosity.—
James Wood,
The New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2023
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Riffs said the five suspects in Norquist's killing were arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder under the state's depraved indifference statute.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
19 Feb. 2025
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Five people, ranging in age from 19 to 38, have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder with depraved indifference, according to the release.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN,
15 Feb. 2025
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“Ungodly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungodly. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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