Godless
adjective
Not believing in or respecting the existence of God.
He was raised in a godless household.
Often appears as...
- godless heathen
- godless communism
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Disapproving
adjective
Profane or sinful.
They were cast as godless outcasts.
Often appears as...
- godless behaviour
- lead a godless life
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Disapproving
adjective
Not believing in or respecting the existence of God.
He was raised in a godless household.
Often appears as...
- godless heathen
- godless communism
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Profane or sinful.
They were cast as godless outcasts.
Often appears as...
- godless behaviour
- lead a godless life
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Secular Context
Use 'godless' to describe societies or systems that separate religion from governance or public education.
The law promoted a godless public school system.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Tone
'Godless' can be a neutral term, without negative judgment, simply stating lack of religious belief.
She prefers a godless wedding ceremony.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Sometimes 'godless' implies a negative judgment, suggesting someone is without morals.
Neighbors shunned him as a godless man.
Pro Tip 1/3Secular Context
Use 'godless' to describe societies or systems that separate religion from governance or public education.
The law promoted a godless public school system.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Tone
'Godless' can be a neutral term, without negative judgment, simply stating lack of religious belief.
She prefers a godless wedding ceremony.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Sometimes 'godless' implies a negative judgment, suggesting someone is without morals.
Neighbors shunned him as a godless man.
Pro Tip 1/3Secular Context
Use 'godless' to describe societies or systems that separate religion from governance or public education.
The law promoted a godless public school system.
Pro Tip 2/3Neutral Tone
'Godless' can be a neutral term, without negative judgment, simply stating lack of religious belief.
She prefers a godless wedding ceremony.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Sometimes 'godless' implies a negative judgment, suggesting someone is without morals.
Neighbors shunned him as a godless man.
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Video examples
Homeopathy, quackery and...
she can't reach me? I'm alive, you may have noticed. Well, pretty well anyway. She couldn't reach me. Now she says she doesn't want to reach me because I'm a godless person. All the more reason to take the million dollars,
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Canyon Catharsis PIPE...
in the face I just want to look you in the face and look at the hollow shell of a man that you are you godless
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Homeopathy, quackery and...
she can't reach me? I'm alive, you may have noticed. Well, pretty well anyway. She couldn't reach me. Now she says she doesn't want to reach me because I'm a godless person. All the more reason to take the million dollars,
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Canyon Catharsis PIPE...
in the face I just want to look you in the face and look at the hollow shell of a man that you are you godless
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Quote examples
John Fleming
American Politician
We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like Western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we're going to continue down the other pathway, where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties, and that we remain a Christian nation.
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Dick Durbin
American Politician
Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.
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James Wan
Australian Producer
What's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist, when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.
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Anne Rice
American Novelist
The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?
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Jaggi Vasudev
Indian Author
The most fundamental strength of India is that we are a land of seekers. Seekers of truth and liberation. Not a land of believers. We are a godless nation.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?
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Silvia Cartwright
New Zealander Statesman
We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.
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Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
American Author
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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Anita Brookner
English Historian
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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John Fleming
American Politician
We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like Western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we're going to continue down the other pathway, where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties, and that we remain a Christian nation.
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Dick Durbin
American Politician
Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.
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James Wan
Australian Producer
What's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist, when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.
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Anne Rice
American Novelist
The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?
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Jaggi Vasudev
Indian Author
The most fundamental strength of India is that we are a land of seekers. Seekers of truth and liberation. Not a land of believers. We are a godless nation.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?
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Silvia Cartwright
New Zealander Statesman
We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.
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Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
American Author
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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Anita Brookner
English Historian
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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