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

The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

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

Therein hath the breeze of holiness, laden with the love of thy Lord, stirred thy spirit within thee, and the waters of understanding have washed from thee the stains of remoteness and ungodliness.

From Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh by Bahá'u'lláh

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