ungodliness

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Since the days of Bartholomew Fair, and before, professional carnivals have been held up as examples of ungodliness.

From Time Magazine Archive

When He visits them with affliction and adversity, their self-conscious righteousness goes out and seeks Comparison with prosperous ungodliness, and forthwith comments on strange fact of the deserving suffering while the undeserving are spared.

From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by Stapleton, John H. (John Henry)

“The Redeemer shall come to Sion, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.”

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

These two, ungodliness and worldliness, are always found in company; but it is sometimes difficult to determine which of the two goes first, and draws the other after it.

From The Parables of Our Lord by Arnot, William

And man, so capable in his nature of this ungodliness, boasts himself made after God's own image.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry