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)

As it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins.

From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Lord, Eleazar

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)

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)