Wicked or unprincipled

Usage examples of godless.

He surrounds himself with godless men and monsters, worse than before.

The baleful eloquence of Thomas Muenzer was exerted at Muehlhausen to nerve the people to strike down the godless with pitiless sword.

While many of the Anabaptists were perfect quietists, preaching the duty of non-resistance and the wickedness of bearing arms, even in self-defence, others found sanction for quite opposite views in the Scripture, and proclaimed that the godless should be exterminated as the Canaanites had been.

You look to the safety of our borders, situated as we are, small and weak amid decadent and godless lands.

And as He chose me, so I choose you, to be the flame that will rekindle the true faith in this godless land.

For long and bitter generations, the Godless Ones wandered and cried out unheard in the wastelands and wilderness of the West.

I was born in the year beforeafter my mother diedand spent my first winter in the camp of the Godless Ones.

No, I mean imprudent in that you talk too much of the Godless King and the runagate Queen, who will show her bosom and legs to all and go to mass hiccuping with the drink.

Let them, says he, get in theirrr Godless butts of gunpowderrr and I myself, laddies, will marrrch thither with guarrrd and witness to prrrove it was no tale.

Aye, I was in the rrricht of it, the divine rrricht I may say, to hae thrrrown oot of the rrrealm a bulk nae matterrr hoo holy that hath been defiled by the pens of Godless rrrepublicans, aye.

You think me godless and a libertine but it is to me, me, me, not the black crows of Puritans that daily infest this house and shall not infest it more that the task of improving the word of the Lord is given.

Enderby wished now heartily to embrace her: what she was improvising complete with tune was, God knew, terrible enough but it would get the whole damn burden cleared off his shoulders, the godless task finished.

My mother said we lived in a godless world, and she might just be right.

You and I may think of Antonina as a difficult, demanding and manipulative woman, but Belisarius loves her to adoration, and he would rather run on his sword like a godless Roman than bring any harm to her.

The complaints of those people who have claimed that your troops have been more rapacious than the godless invaders have been revealed as the calumny they are, doubtless the result of agents of the disgraced Belisarius who are attempting to discredit all you have done and give false praise to the former commander.