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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ungodly
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hour
▪ That is why in her senior year Celestine Price lost her virginity at the ungodly hour of 6: 15A.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Why did you wake me up at such an ungodly hour?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Paul is claiming that attitudes are everything, and ongoing dissatisfaction can be a very ungodly outlook.
▪ Confusion was ungodly, the hour was ungodly, and Barnabas had lately begun to snore in an alternate bass and baritone.
▪ He moved slowly round the perimeter staring at the seven disciples who had so far survived the ungodly war.
▪ She states that those who are perceived as the enemy are often viewed as immoral, even ungodly.
▪ The ungodly congregation knelt with their faces bowed to the floor.
▪ There are many more twists to this bowl of pasta, which might easily have been an ungodly mess.
▪ Wearing a police uniform did not sanitize a working man from ungodly ways.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ungodly

Ungodly \Un*god"ly\, a.

  1. Not godly; not having regard for God; disobedient to God; wicked; impious; sinful.

  2. Polluted by sin or wickedness.

    The hours of this ungodly day.
    --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Un*god"li*ly, adv. -- Un*god"li*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ungodly

late 14c., "irreligious, not god-fearing, not in accordance with the laws of God," from un- (1) "not" + godly (adj.). Similar formation in Middle Dutch ongodelijc, German ungöttlich, Middle Swedish ogudhlik. Colloquial sense of "extremely annoying" is recorded from 1887.

Wiktionary
ungodly

a. 1 Lacking reverence for God; impious. 2 sinful, immoral or wicked. 3 unreasonable; extreme.

WordNet
ungodly
  1. adj. characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts" [syn: iniquitous, sinful]

  2. lacking piety and reverence for a god [syn: impious]

  3. [also: ungodliest, ungodlier]

Usage examples of "ungodly".

He would like to see the justice of the peace, or magistrate, who would fine a knight of the shire, or independent member of an independent borough, who in the morning might possibly be brought before him in a state presenting a good imitation of the odious and ungodly crime of drunkenness, which called down the wrath of the moral legislators of the age of King James.

Only the ungodly need fear me, Mr Burry, or those who serve the ungodly.

The rat flopped about helplessly, screeching its death screams, and I hit it again in order to terminate the ungodly noise.

Let them go up at once against the city--whether Oxford or London was not clear--for every delay would enable the ungodly to assemble, whereas, if taken by surprise, they would be shepherdless sheep.

After opening up and explaining the parts of the text, when in the improvement I came to press the injunction in the text upon the unconverted and ungodly, and offered this as one reason among others why they should now first of all seek the kingdom and righteousness of God, viz.

When they pushed off, rowing in long smooth pulls, Rhodry began striking two-handed in a regular rhythm while the helmsman and anchorman both screamed and yelled and made every ungodly noise they could think of to drive the beasts away.

Jacobites has persevered for ages to cast stones against his sepulchre, and to propagate the foolish tradition, that it was never watered by the rain of heaven, which equally descends on the righteous and the ungodly.

And Nara was right about the ungodly stink inside their plastic envelope.

Of the divisions in religion, when rash unlearned ungodly men by force and the sword impose their churches like beds of Procrustes on suffering men.

His church was small and dingy, his flock sparce and ungodly, the Settlement a veritable prison.

Simon Templar, called the Saint, had not only survived but prospered in the greatest good humour with a Zarathustrian confidence in his ordained eventual victory over everything that the Ungodly could throw at him.

Wendishmen and marchlanders and the ungodly banners, a dozen or more, of Quman tribes, a host of them to strike fear so deep that he wets himself.

Simkin interrupted, springing into the air so suddenly that his foot caught in the harpstrings, causing a most ungodly twanging.

Instead of considering these relationships ungodly, I thought they were enlightening, although I considered the titles to be foolish.

No, Rogeryou can bet your last set of Aertex that the entire personnel of the ungodly is at this moment engaged in whiffling through every telephone number in the book as they've never whiffled before.