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词汇 ungodly
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Definition of ungodly in English:

ungodly

adjectiveungodliest, ungodlierʌnˈɡɒdliˌənˈɡɑdli
  • 1Irreligious or immoral.

    违反神旨的;不道德的

    ungodly lives of lust and pleasure

    充斥自恋、贪欲和享乐的不道德生活。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Gore has chosen to respond to the Republican attempts to portray the Clinton administration as immoral and ungodly by moving even farther to the right.
    • They compare civil union legislation to legalizing inter-racial marriage, which was also once considered ungodly and unnatural.
    • ‘She was a lesbian, so she was regarded as a man-hater and a freak, and something that was ungodly,’ says Broomfield.
    • As he commented that I'm not entirely sure how it works, but I suspect it's an ungodly act of Satan, I immediately felt I should respond in kind.
    • Some ungodly evil force stepped in, intent on bringing about his death.
    • Apart from scandals that have rocked the sacred houses, there is an increase in the ungodly activities of the men of the pulpit and some of their flock.
    • So where does your ungodly and corrupting tour of the world's backstreets and fleshpots take you this month?
    • This ungodly revelation seems to fly in the face of his Christian faith, which he says did not play into his storyline, not on any conscious level anyway.
    • So we should not be pulled by strings of fear that the terrorists attach to our lives with their inhuman and ungodly acts.
    • But vilifying a group, saying that they are evil, ungodly, unnatural or conspiring to take over the world is not sufficient.
    • We are a godly people, which makes our enemies ungodly, even demonic.
    • My explanation hereafter was declared ungodly and insane because, as he maintained, I had no right to discredit the role of prayer in soccer matches.
    • Furthermore, I will never bring myself to describe such an intense and ungodly sight as this abomination of evil.
    • After an aide warned that using God's name would create the wrong impression, Blair complained that his team was a ‘most ungodly lot’.
    • But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
    • If somebody wanted to sit down and have an espresso in a cafe, they shouldn't have to do it in the same place where people were doing such immoral and ungodly things as having a beer.
    • There's something ungodly about it.
    • Cell phones, iPods, capitalism, and democracy - instruments of control will sequester ungodly urges.
    • The days are evil and the ungodly are against us.
    • The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
    Synonyms
    unholy, godless, irreligious, impious, blasphemous, sacrilegious, profane, heathen, pagan, atheistic, non-theistic, irreverent
    immoral, corrupt, depraved, sinful, wicked, evil, iniquitous, devilish, fiendish, demonic, diabolical, satanic, infernal
  • 2informal Unreasonably early or inconvenient.

    〈非正式〉非常早的;不适当的

    I've been troubled by telephone calls at ungodly hours

    我一大早就受到电话骚扰。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You spend the ungodly early hours of the morning writing about hope for a world beyond empire, beyond greed, beyond humanity's frailty.
    • Most of Philip's cheese comes from the west country, and once a month he gets up at the ungodly hour of 4.30 am for a round trip of the region in his refrigerated van.
    • I live in an historically apathetic precinct, so I was surprised to see so many people there at such an ungodly hour.
    • Now, it is at this ungodly hour that I intended to book a date for my medical examination (if not for the frailties of technology).
    • Another sign that Christmas was coming was when we were woken up at a seemingly ungodly hour of the morning when it was still pitch black and freezing!
    • They live on the margins, working ungodly hours on below minimum wages, almost not breathing in order to avoid detection.
    • With your music and a recording studio at home, how do your neighbours react while you belt out music (and we all know you do it at an ungodly hour)?
    • Drawing the short straw, Beattie was charged with leaving the hotel at an ungodly six o'clock in the morning to plug the van's parking meter.
    • I yawned as we sat, waiting for a plane ungodly early that morning.
    • Well, Elgin would have been forced into rising with the milkman had they departed Moray at some ungodly hour for an earlier start.
    • No, really, he did say this, but only because this writer forced him to say it at an ungodly early hour.
    • The girls are failing to make the transition and keep waking up in a cranky state at some ungodly hour that starts with a 5.
    • Still, the prospect of turning up in Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory, at the ungodly hour of 4am provoked anxiety.
    • At some ungodly hour, Lutherans from all over the neighbourhood are summarily summoned to church by an extended barrage of random, vigorous and tuneless clanging.
    • And though most students may pour scorn on those who peel themselves out of bed at some ungodly hour to do the bidding of some midget cox, one must admire their strength.
    • The hour of Franklin's bedtime is directly proportional to the ungodly early hour he wakes up in the morning.
    • We set out at 5am, an ungodly hour for most people, but prime time for a morning person like myself.
    • Is that really you posting at ungodly hours of the night?
    • Unless you have the dubious pleasure of living right next door to an airport one of the biggest downsides of going on holiday is catching a flight at an ungodly hour of the day.
    • A flunky turned up with a fleet of coaches at some ungodly hour of the morning, and after an endless drive into the countryside, we were herded into an aircraft hangar in the middle of nowhere.
    Synonyms
    unreasonable, preposterous, abnormal, extraordinary, absurd, ridiculous, horrendous, outrageous, unheard of
    unsocial, antisocial
    informal unholy, unearthly, God-awful

Derivatives

  • ungodliness

  • nounʌnˈɡɒdlɪnəsˌənˈɡɑdlinəs
    • Paul neither gives motivation for these sins nor offers a hierarchy of them: ‘all ungodliness and wickedness’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I assume that he is appalled at the ungodliness of a nation that has largely rejected the hypocrisies and hatreds of organised religion.
      • Repentance must come every day as soon as you have acknowledged that you have done something wrong, and not after you spend two whole months in carnality and ungodliness.
      • Is opposition to Howard government policies tantamount to ungodliness?
      • But he also read classical authors whose ungodliness taught a very different lesson.

Definition of ungodly in US English:

ungodly

adjectiveˌənˈɡɑdliˌənˈɡädlē
  • 1Irreligious or immoral.

    违反神旨的;不道德的

    ungodly lives of self-obsession, lust, and pleasure

    充斥自恋、贪欲和享乐的不道德生活。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Cell phones, iPods, capitalism, and democracy - instruments of control will sequester ungodly urges.
    • If somebody wanted to sit down and have an espresso in a cafe, they shouldn't have to do it in the same place where people were doing such immoral and ungodly things as having a beer.
    • So where does your ungodly and corrupting tour of the world's backstreets and fleshpots take you this month?
    • ‘She was a lesbian, so she was regarded as a man-hater and a freak, and something that was ungodly,’ says Broomfield.
    • There's something ungodly about it.
    • But vilifying a group, saying that they are evil, ungodly, unnatural or conspiring to take over the world is not sufficient.
    • Some ungodly evil force stepped in, intent on bringing about his death.
    • My explanation hereafter was declared ungodly and insane because, as he maintained, I had no right to discredit the role of prayer in soccer matches.
    • Gore has chosen to respond to the Republican attempts to portray the Clinton administration as immoral and ungodly by moving even farther to the right.
    • Apart from scandals that have rocked the sacred houses, there is an increase in the ungodly activities of the men of the pulpit and some of their flock.
    • We are a godly people, which makes our enemies ungodly, even demonic.
    • But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
    • Furthermore, I will never bring myself to describe such an intense and ungodly sight as this abomination of evil.
    • They compare civil union legislation to legalizing inter-racial marriage, which was also once considered ungodly and unnatural.
    • After an aide warned that using God's name would create the wrong impression, Blair complained that his team was a ‘most ungodly lot’.
    • The days are evil and the ungodly are against us.
    • The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
    • So we should not be pulled by strings of fear that the terrorists attach to our lives with their inhuman and ungodly acts.
    • As he commented that I'm not entirely sure how it works, but I suspect it's an ungodly act of Satan, I immediately felt I should respond in kind.
    • This ungodly revelation seems to fly in the face of his Christian faith, which he says did not play into his storyline, not on any conscious level anyway.
    Synonyms
    unholy, godless, irreligious, impious, blasphemous, sacrilegious, profane, heathen, pagan, atheistic, non-theistic, irreverent
    1. 1.1informal Unreasonably early or inconvenient.
      〈非正式〉非常早的;不适当的
      I've been troubled by telephone calls at ungodly hours

      我一大早就受到电话骚扰。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Drawing the short straw, Beattie was charged with leaving the hotel at an ungodly six o'clock in the morning to plug the van's parking meter.
      • You spend the ungodly early hours of the morning writing about hope for a world beyond empire, beyond greed, beyond humanity's frailty.
      • With your music and a recording studio at home, how do your neighbours react while you belt out music (and we all know you do it at an ungodly hour)?
      • They live on the margins, working ungodly hours on below minimum wages, almost not breathing in order to avoid detection.
      • Most of Philip's cheese comes from the west country, and once a month he gets up at the ungodly hour of 4.30 am for a round trip of the region in his refrigerated van.
      • Well, Elgin would have been forced into rising with the milkman had they departed Moray at some ungodly hour for an earlier start.
      • No, really, he did say this, but only because this writer forced him to say it at an ungodly early hour.
      • Unless you have the dubious pleasure of living right next door to an airport one of the biggest downsides of going on holiday is catching a flight at an ungodly hour of the day.
      • A flunky turned up with a fleet of coaches at some ungodly hour of the morning, and after an endless drive into the countryside, we were herded into an aircraft hangar in the middle of nowhere.
      • At some ungodly hour, Lutherans from all over the neighbourhood are summarily summoned to church by an extended barrage of random, vigorous and tuneless clanging.
      • Now, it is at this ungodly hour that I intended to book a date for my medical examination (if not for the frailties of technology).
      • And though most students may pour scorn on those who peel themselves out of bed at some ungodly hour to do the bidding of some midget cox, one must admire their strength.
      • Still, the prospect of turning up in Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory, at the ungodly hour of 4am provoked anxiety.
      • The girls are failing to make the transition and keep waking up in a cranky state at some ungodly hour that starts with a 5.
      • We set out at 5am, an ungodly hour for most people, but prime time for a morning person like myself.
      • Another sign that Christmas was coming was when we were woken up at a seemingly ungodly hour of the morning when it was still pitch black and freezing!
      • The hour of Franklin's bedtime is directly proportional to the ungodly early hour he wakes up in the morning.
      • I yawned as we sat, waiting for a plane ungodly early that morning.
      • I live in an historically apathetic precinct, so I was surprised to see so many people there at such an ungodly hour.
      • Is that really you posting at ungodly hours of the night?
      Synonyms
      unreasonable, preposterous, abnormal, extraordinary, absurd, ridiculous, horrendous, outrageous, unheard of
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