How to Use godless in a Sentence
godless
adjective
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The Klan looked worried that their event was about to be commandeered by godless Nazis.
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Aaron Gilbreath,
Longreads,
22 Feb. 2018
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Who can say what power would do to these proponents of a Godless world-view?
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Wired Letters Department,
WIRED,
1 Dec. 2006
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But in his eyes, godless communism and the Soviet Union were just as baleful.
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Reuel Marc Gerecht,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Sep. 2023
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The landscape of sports has long been littered with godless God guys who soil the platform with false testimony.
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Marcus Hayes,
Philly.com,
2 Feb. 2018
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To some, that makes me godless and unworthy of my citizenship.
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Paul Daugherty,
Cincinnati.com,
20 Nov. 2019
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The Ahmarists don’t want to share the public square with the godless and think the French types are naive for believing that pluralism will ever work for conservatives.
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Ephrat Livni,
Quartz,
17 June 2019
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Those two additional words were meant to signify America’s distinction from the Soviet Union, which was viewed as the godless menace of the time.
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Julie Zauzmer,
Washington Post,
8 Feb. 2018
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The pledge of allegiance originally omitted those two words until Congress, in an absurd response to godless communism, added them to the pledge in 1954.
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Jonathan Chait,
Daily Intelligencer,
3 May 2018
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Despite the decade’s influx of godless movie people and their trailing entourage of wannabes and hangers-on, the city had remained a magnet for aging health-seekers, middle-class snowbirds, and retirees from the Midwest.
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Gary Krist,
Los Angeles Magazine,
7 May 2018
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These advisors to the presumably godless Donkey Party took a lot of credit for the Democratic victory in 2008, and began, well, cashing in.
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Ed Kilgore,
Daily Intelligencer,
26 Jan. 2018
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This timely memoir seeks to reconcile an evangelical upbringing in Texas with literary life in a godless New York.
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Rachel Aviv,
The New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2017
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Nevertheless, aspects of my temperament—grammar nerdery, terror over the arbitrariness of a godless world—place me in sympathy with the Poindexters.
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S.c. Cornell,
The New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2023
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Normally the thing to do would be to blame it all on the godless liberal Democrats, but since said Democrats have been almost entirely uninvolved with every major Republican legislative initiative this year, that doesn’t pass the laugh test.
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Ed Kilgore,
Daily Intelligencer,
17 July 2017
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Christian patriots, supposedly imperiled and opposed by a godless state, are encouraged to attend not merely to hear children’s books but to demonstrate their allegiance.
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Ron Charles,
Washington Post,
31 Mar. 2023
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Many Americans don’t fully appreciate just how godless European culture has become.
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David French,
National Review,
22 July 2019
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Secular school administrators punishing a small-town high school football coach for quietly praying after a game is potent imagery, evoking a wistful Americana that is now threatened by godless liberalism.
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Matt Ford,
The New Republic,
8 Sep. 2023
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News-gathering institutions, acting in concert with environmental theologians, present nature as a fearful godless entity, when the opposite is true.
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Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
16 June 2017
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Red America may disdain Colin Kaepernick, unauthorized immigrants, and godless cosmopolitans.
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Eric Levitz,
Daily Intelligencer,
1 Nov. 2017
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Liberals accused him of giving credibility to abusive governments while fundamentalist Christians criticized him for going to godless countries and promoting peaceful relations with them.
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Bill Trott,
Anchorage Daily News,
21 Feb. 2018
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Government propaganda at home portrayed the communist USSR as godless, tyrannical and antithetical to individual freedoms.
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Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy,
The Conversation,
27 Feb. 2020
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