(a.) Having, or acknowledging, no God; without reverence for God; impious; wicked.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
(2) UCL, the godless place in Gower Street, which had been set up, in large part, as a home for the spiritually uncomfortable, fitted Jacobson like a glove.
(3) Claiming the title for the most godless places were the student enclaves of Brighton and Norwich, where 42% said they had no religious affiliation, closely followed by Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly and Rhondda in south Wales, where community leaders said unemployment and a breakdown in community values had loosened religion's hold.
(4) To paraphrase Stephen Colbert , the Kings are at this point nothing more than giant, marauding, godless hockey machines.
(5) The constitutional process gave the conspiracy of a secret liberal-communist alliance a philosophical basis: there is no difference between liberal secularism and communist atheism, because both are used to persecute the church; there is no difference between liberal democracy and communist authoritarianism because both are used to impose a godless minority’s will on “ordinary Poles”.
(6) What would happen if they set up a "godless congregation" that met to celebrate life, with no hope of the hereafter?
(7) In August 1990, when Iraq annexed Kuwait and threatened Saudi security, he offered to raise an army of Arab Afghan veterans to fight the "godless" Saddam.
(8) So these unsparing public accounts of dying are perhaps best read as a tentative kind of prayer for the godless: a lesson in being able when the time eventually comes to leave our children with grace, put right some wrongs, and to accept what we cannot change.
(9) A man who now regards the Conservative party as de facto socialist was once a godless Trotskyist, a member of the International Socialists (the forerunners of the Socialist Workers party), who were committed to the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ state.
(10) humility, irritating to some, might play better with the godless public.
(11) In fact, the prospects for Falconer's bill, and for the overwhelming majority who agree with it, might be brighter if more of its religious opponents were as openly indifferent to evidence, argument and testimony that has moved the most godless to pity.
(12) It confirms our place as perhaps the most godless country, the least "churched", in the industrialised world, setting us apart from the US, obviously, but also from much of continental Europe.
(13) We are asunder, a predicament perhaps best expressed by the Daily Mail's Robert Hardman being photographed in a cathedral calling people "godless".
(14) Abe promotes himself as bridge between Japan’s past and its future, vaulting from Japan’s glorious traditions, over the post-1945 years of weakness, socialism and godlessness, to a beautiful, brave new Japan people by beautiful, brave new Japanese,” Cucek said.
(15) Following the short tour, the pair will be holing up at London's Bloomsbury Theatre for the seemingly annual Nine Lessons And Carols For Godless People, a Christmas celebration for rationalists that in the past has featured contributions from Jarvis Cocker , Ricky Gervais and professor Richard Dawkins.
(16) This California playground of Pacific surf, sunshine and sleek boutiques has, if you believe one side of the argument, just plunged a dagger into Christmas, gutted tradition and pushed America down a slippery slope to godlessness.
(17) Their vision, he says, is "a godless gathering in every town, city or village that wants one".
(18) I can imagine the message being something like: “See what the godless Americans are doing to us; come help us fight them, because actually they’re not doing very much at all and you probably won’t die if you join in.” Our lukewarm efforts may actually be helping them draw replacement Emwazis into their deluded, disgusting version of what the world should look like – probably not the best course of action.
(19) The Sunday Assembly may be godless, but a churchgoer who stumbled through the wrong door would find much they recognised.
(20) Julius arrived an hour early, just to be sure of a place at the service, which is described by its organisers as "a godless congregation that meets … to hear great talks, sing songs and generally celebrate life".
Graceless
Definition:
(a.) Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt.
(a.) Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) After two or three years of this, he brought his investigation to a graceless close.
(2) But the scramble to cover what has become the biggest sport story this year has inspired some graceless behaviour.
(3) "There's no ombré.”) His acceptance speeches have been on the graceless side, cracking jokes about body waxing and reminding everyone that he took a six-year break from acting to front a rock band.
(4) The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, described the address as “weird and graceless”.
(5) But we consume it in graceless fashion: in bulk and at the cheapest price.
(6) I suspect he would be mortified by what is happening, and by a Tory party leader behaving very gracelessly towards him.” Few in the party still carry a torch for the coalition years, but the enduring popularity of Cameron in this corner of Oxfordshire is something that the Lib Dems feel they might be able to capitalise on.
(7) Farage wore the look of a man ground down by repetition; a man who knew that every aside, every waggled eyebrow, every non-joke that sounded like a joke because it was inexplicably delivered in a jokey see-saw cadence, would be greeted by the Ukip faithful with the same graceless “weeeeey” noise that daytime drinkers make in crap pubs whenever the barmaid drops a glass.
(8) From the outside, it looks like an enormous upturned concrete bucket, an example of graceless 70s architecture.
(9) The ruling National Party, soon exhausted by the demoralising business of negotiating itself out of power, grew increasingly tetchy and graceless.
(10) But now Brad Evans is penalized for a rather graceless looking kick at his marker and the Rapids can get the ball out.
(11) I know this has been said before by many others, but it's been done so gracelessly and with so little humour.
(12) A looping bronzed band swoops and swirls up and down the building, gouging out great gashes here and there, cutting slippery fissures into the facade, before flaring out in a graceless canopy above the street.
(13) The opposition leader, Bill Shorten , mocked Abbott for a “weird and graceless” speech, saying the prime minister had used his moment in front of the world’s most important leaders to complain that Australians did not support a co-payment on visits to the doctor.
(14) In order that patients may be served properly, the smile must be understood, recorded, and analyzed so that desirable aspects may be preserved and graceless components returned to attractiveness.
(15) So I really hope the result, however gracelessly or grudgingly, will be accepted by the loser.” If it is not, however, chaos could ensure.
(16) But the DWP, which has form in this regard, last week raised the bar in terms of institutional gracelessness.