Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a godless manner.

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  • adverb In a godless way.

Etymologies

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godless +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • If the pants under the Williamsburgers 'uniform plaid shirts weren't so godlessly tight, you'd swear they must have grown up on the farm.

    Jilly Gagnon: Your Best Beard Ever! 2009

  • It was a sea-chest, legacy from her roving father, who had given it to her mother, and often enough had Aunt Senath expressed scruples about allowing her to keep a gift obtained so godlessly.

    The White Riband A Young Female's Folly Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse

  • I sinned far more than you who have been brought up godlessly from your cradle.

    The Little Minister 1898

  • Hall Haddo, 'says he, sub voce Peden,' or Hell Haddo, as he was more justly to be called, a pokeful of old condemned errors and the filthy vile lusts of the flesh, a published whore-monger, a common gross drunkard, continually and godlessly scraping and skirling on

    Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • When did the fool stop saying in his heart, "There is no God," and acting godlessly in the absurdity of his impiety?

    Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks Phillips Brooks 1864

  • When he reached the road he began to swear godlessly, reproaching and cursing every student, legatus, and hound of a priest, who, instead of praising God at home, prowled about the high-roads, and spoiled a hard working man's business.

    Debts of Honor M��r J��kai 1864

  • They try, conceitedly and godlessly, to walk by the light of their own eyes -- to make their own way plain before their face for themselves.

    Twenty-Five Village Sermons Charles Kingsley 1847

  • So, all of these so-called "great intellects" who are godlessly guiding society and destroying the world for their personal ambitions, unfettered by moral or religious persuasions are actually a bunch of road apples.

    بالاترین 2009

  • So, all of these so-called "great intellects" who are godlessly guiding society and destroying the world for their personal ambitions, unfettered by moral or religious persuasions are actually a bunch of road apples.

    بالاترین 2009

  • If government schools are godless, as they are now, then children are taught to think godlessly.

    Latest Articles 2009

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