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- adjective
superlative form ofungodly : mostungodly .
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Examples
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Nigh unto thee, though thou professest to be the ungodliest one, I feel
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"She's got the ungodliest-looking nose I ever saw," the man said, going up the stairs.
Tobacco Road Caldwell, Erskine, 1903- 1934
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"Aunt Kate," said Worth, gathering both puppies into his arms as they were succeeding all too well in demonstrating that they were going to grow up and be real dogs, "Watts says it is the ungodliest thing he knows of that these puppies haven't got any names."
The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915
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Nigh unto thee, though thou professest to be the ungodliest one, I feel a hale and holy odour of long benedictions: I feel glad and grieved thereby.
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That took place when the ungodliest utterance came from a God himself-the utterance: "There is but one God! Thou shalt have no other gods before me!"
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Yes, comfort yourself on that particular, O ungodliest divine man! thou cantest never.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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A young lawyer who saw him for the first time thus -- one who grew to love him and who afterwards gave his life for the Union -- in relating the circumstance a long time afterward, exclaimed: "He was the _ungodliest_ figure I ever saw."
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Nigh unto thee, though thou professest to be the ungodliest one, I feel
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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The woman of the house in front of which the wicked young tinker was standing, herself, as he remarks, "a very loose, ungodly wretch," protested that his horrible profanity made her tremble; that he was the ungodliest fellow for swearing she had ever heard, and able to spoil all the youth of the town who came in his company.
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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The woman of the house in front of which the wicked young tinker was standing, herself, as he remarks, "a very loose, ungodly wretch," protested that his horrible profanity made her tremble; that he was the ungodliest fellow for swearing she had ever heard, and able to spoil all the youth of the town who came in his company.
Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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