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

Besides, I do not object to stay, for I intend to preach them a sermon on ungodliness and intemperance in the middle of the feast.”

From The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by Pearson, Francis B.

He hesitated for a moment, longing to stigmatize its ungodliness; but the recollection of Tyler Sudley's uncertain temper decided him, and he left it unmolested.

From The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)