undevout

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In consequence of this scheme, her habits rather than her opinions, were undevout.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

I envy not him who is undevout in the presence of so much Beauty.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by Weaver, George Sumner

Furthermore, admitting it to be an open question, neither proved nor disproved, but poised in equal uncertainty, still, it is not immoral nor undevout deeply to desire and fondly to hope a personal immortality.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

But presently the big bell began to swing: stroke after stroke, it first aroused, but was fast lulling me, when the chimes struck in and sang all manner of incoherent and undevout lines.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various

But the Sabbath evening does not find the Jews undevout.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various