What's the difference between godly and ungod?

Godly


Definition:

  • (n.) Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life.
  • (adv.) Piously; devoutly; righteously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
  • (3) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
  • (4) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
  • (5) If you can get through them, then you are considered a god in the world of cold calling.
  • (6) Last night, in a dramatic announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God, Venter said the dream had come true, saying he had created an organism with manmade DNA .
  • (7) The characters in the film realise that the “gods are not coming to save us”, he said.
  • (8) When I lived in New York, my local yoga centre would advocate veganism in terms I hadn't heard since I last went to synagogue ("godly") or spoke regularly to anorexics ("clean", "pure").
  • (9) In 1945 Aneurin Bevan said: ‘We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, and now, we are the builders.’ And my God, how they built.
  • (10) From the moment God speaks to him until he leaves the ark and steps on to dry land, he never says a word.
  • (11) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
  • (12) He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys.
  • (13) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
  • (14) His "Oh God" prayer was actually written after the England team failed in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa but is likely to be useful in all future tournaments as well.
  • (15) OH MY GOD, I just looked it up online,” she wrote.
  • (16) There is a god who protects me, and I just don’t believe Hofer will send me to a concentration camp.” Like Marine Le Pen’s Front National, the Freedom party has actively tried to distance itself from its antisemitic past since at least 2010, when it joined a cross-party alliance in the European parliament with Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom and Italy’s Northern League.
  • (17) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
  • (18) In fact, it soon became clear that if there was anything designed to get Tony really riled, it was talk of God.
  • (19) Thank God the heroes of SWAT-team prevented the worst.
  • (20) Expressing the belief that it was important for Christians to engage in "a sincere and rigorous dialogue" with atheists, Francis recalled Scalfari had asked him whether God forgave those "who do not believe and do not seek to believe".

Ungod


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deprive of divinity; to undeify.
  • (v. t.) To cause to recognize no god; to deprive of a god; to make atheistical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In around 100 years time, multi-generational "problem" families will constitute a quarter of the population, sucking in billions of "our" tax dollars and placing "an ungodly burden" on our children and grandchildren, says US psychiatrist Dr Bruce Perry.
  • (2) When we return from dinner at the ungodly hour of 9.20pm, we have to be let in by the night watchman.
  • (3) One European diplomat closely involved with the talks despairs at the "Republican headbangers who cannot resist a chance to damage Obama, believe global warming is based on junk science and regard action on climate change as ungodly because it will delay the second coming".
  • (4) No staring at ceilings at ungodly hours fretting over problems that will be forgotten in weeks; no checking work emails, almost as a nervous tic, when they can wait; no neglecting friendships that sustain and give life meaning.
  • (5) It is 11am and this is his fourth interview of the day, starting at some ungodly hour with a baptism of bosomy fire courtesy of Lorraine Kelly and followed by a stream of ebullient radio presenters.
  • (6) Out of the blue, Josh posted a 1,500-word blog on his own website that criticised everything from the way the band had been put together to the lyrics of Brand New Eyes, which he deemed ungodly.
  • (7) The targeted leaflet , which accuses Labour of undermining Christian values and promoting "ungodly lifestyles", was sent to 24,000 people in the borough.
  • (8) The ungodly screeching you hear are the cogs of Walford's criminal underworld grinding once more into motion.
  • (9) Nor may they play video games rated as suitable for those aged over 10, watch TV programmes rated beyond PG or read potentially “ungodly” periodicals including Esquire, People, Men’s Fitness and ESPN the Magazine.
  • (10) As things stand, we'd be looking at extra-time and penalties, which seem almost inevitable, considering I have to be back here in the office at some ungodly hour to record an extra early edition of Football Weekly Extra podcast .
  • (11) One of my young children wakes me at an ungodly hour before I travel into Shoreditch on my Brompton and the train, where I prepare for the day by meditating and praying.
  • (12) Why we are sat here being oppressed, while people from other tribes are hauling themselves up by their own ungodly efforts and buying three-piece suites.
  • (13) This is the first nomination for Caplan, who told ABC News : “I can safely say that this is one of the few phone calls a person wants to get at an ungodly hour.
  • (14) Aged 41 The motivation and energy the professor has is infectious, and the ungodly hours he keeps.
  • (15) I also know lots of male bakers – but they specialise in muscular sourdoughs, get up at ungodly hours to wrestle with great masses of dough, and most of them are, not to put too fine a point on it, sociopathic loons.

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