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

There being but a single room to the house, and a storm raging without, the outraged and indignant minister was the unwilling witness to the ebb and flow of this tide of ungodliness.

From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)

The reading of the 'Book of Sports' had been interdicted, and from their pulpits they lectured their congregations on the ungodliness of the Sabbath amusements.

From Bunyan by Froude, James Anthony

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

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

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)