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

Surely Thou hast seen it, for Thou beholdest ungodliness and wrong.

From Lotus Buds by Carmichael, Amy

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

In Greek they said atheos and atheotes; to these the English words ungodly and ungodliness correspond rather closely.

From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg

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)