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as in unholy
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as in pernicious
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Recent Examples of ungodly
Williams displayed graphics that showed off confiscated unmarked AR-15s, ammunition, and an ungodly amount of baby oil and lubricant.
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Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Like a lot of us, Carlo Acutis spent an ungodly amount of his life staring at screens.
—Kyle MacNeill, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2024
Instead, the two men eat an ungodly amount of frozen vegetarian food — sometimes with silverware, other times with Paul’s Nugget Slide, which uses gravity to deliver veggie nuggets directly into Stevie’s mouth.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2024
But Burton’s recent career has been disastrous, from his unbearable Sweeney Todd to his ungodly Alice in Wonderland and Dumbo remakes, the work of a Hollywood wunderkind turned hack.
—Armond White, National Review, 11 Sep. 2024
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Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Like a lot of us, Carlo Acutis spent an ungodly amount of his life staring at screens.
—Kyle MacNeill, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2024
Instead, the two men eat an ungodly amount of frozen vegetarian food — sometimes with silverware, other times with Paul’s Nugget Slide, which uses gravity to deliver veggie nuggets directly into Stevie’s mouth.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2024
But Burton’s recent career has been disastrous, from his unbearable Sweeney Todd to his ungodly Alice in Wonderland and Dumbo remakes, the work of a Hollywood wunderkind turned hack.
—Armond White, National Review, 11 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungodly
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With its advent are chased from our minds unholy impulses, and in their stead reign supreme and golden fruitings of the present, and the diamond seedings of the great future.Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 23 Dec. 2024
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The Instant White-Hot Wild: Season 3 Episode 8 Soldier Boy turns out to be as big a villain as Homelander after a shocking twist forces Homelander, Ryan, and Butcher into an unholy alliance.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
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Academic opportunists the past week showed once more how pernicious, naïve misinformation can catch fire and consume the truth, especially when dressed with the veneer of academic credibility.Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
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Most of us can agree the world is in a perilous state, with natural disasters multiplying, pernicious new viruses continually emerging, the planet steadily overheating, and wars raging in constant rotation.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
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Allen's defense team aggressively pushed their theory that Odinists, members of a pagan Norse religion hijacked by white nationalists, killed the girls during a sacrificial ritual in the woods.Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2024
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Defense attorneys for Allen have argued authorities arrested the wrong person and claimed that Odinism, a pagan Norse religion that has been linked to White supremacist groups, could be a theory connected to the killings, court documents show.Nicole Chavez, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
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Things did get ugly a few years later, with the Mexican-American war.Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Year 3 has been ugly — his five-on-five points per 60 have nearly been cut in half (2.57 to 1.32), as has his primary assist rate (1.17 to 0.55).Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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The Cincinnati Bengals welcome the media heathen universe for a gab session/sitdown, linen-tablecloth lunch known in This Space as The Mock Turtle Soupfest and Weenie Roast.Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 May 2019
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Some of my brethren and sis-tren (sis-tren?) in the heathen media tribe get all riled up if a player or coach won’t speak to them.Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 30 May 2019
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As for the place, its veneer of comfortable tourism doesn’t hide the air of something unwholesome, especially when female guests start randomly throwing up.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
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Less visibly, Manton operated a side business with a more unwholesome objective: cashing in on his status and power as a judge.Time, Time, 25 July 2023
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This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
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Both narratives, private and public, differently restrict our access, so the ideal historian will need great tact and an impious curiosity.James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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The depravity of human greed at its most despicable and depraved on full display.Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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But this act also gave people permission to go far enough—to acknowledge their righteous hatred of our depraved health-care system, and even to conjure something funny or silly or joyous out of that hate.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Ungodly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungodly. Accessed 16 Jan. 2025.
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