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

"I have never seen any signs of ungodliness about the schoolmaster's folks," he retorted.

From Jerusalem by Howard, Velma Swanston

As godliness increases the sense of ungodliness becomes more acute, and so feelings never accurately gauge real assimilation to God.

From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan)

Wherein consists the holiness of mud, and the ungodliness of alkali? wherein the purity of a matted beard, and the impiety of Metcalfe's brushes, and Mechi's magic strop?

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

To these it must minister in all their ungodliness and wickedness, permitting its pure and glorious influence to benefit the most unworthy, most shameful and abandoned profligates.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Luther, Martin