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"2": "ongoddelijk"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English ungodli [and other forms], from un- (prefix meaning ‘not’), + godli (“belonging to God; resembling God, godlike”). Godli is derived from Old English godlīċ (“divine, godlike; godly”), from god (“god”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- (“to libate, pour”), in the sense of a liquid offering poured out for a deity) + -līċ (“suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘characteristic of, pertaining to’”). The English word may be analysed as un- + godly, and is cognate with Middle Dutch ongodelijc (modern Dutch ongoddelijk), Middle High German ungötlich (modern German ungöttlich), Old Norse óguðligr (“ungodly”) (Danish ugudelig, Icelandic óguðlegur), Swedish ogudlig.",
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"un‧god‧ly"
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"word": "godly"
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"word": "observant"
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"word": "pious"
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{
"word": "reverent"
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"ref": "1912, Ernst Troeltsch, “Protestantism and Politico-social Institutions”, in W. Montgomery, transl., Protestantism and Progress: A Historical Study of the Relation of Protestantism to the Modern World (Crown Theological Library; XXXVII), London: Williams & Norgate, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 113–114",
"text": "[...] Calvinism gave a much more radical development to its Law of Nature. It successfully established the principle of the right of resistance, which must be exercised on behalf of the word of God in the face of ungodly authorities, [...]",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2013, Manny Alaniz, “The Traditional View of Imputed Righteousness”, in Deficiencies in the Justification of the Ungodly: A Look at N. T. Wright’s View of the Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness, Eugene, Or.: Wipf and Stock, page 48",
"text": "This righteousness spoken about is a judicial or forensic declarative pronouncement given by God to the ungodly sinner who receives it by faith alone.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"Of a person: lacking reverence for God; of an action: not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings."
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"God",
"God"
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[
"action",
"action"
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[
"accordance",
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[
"will",
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[
"religious",
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"word": "impious"
},
{
"word": "irreligious"
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{
"word": "irreverent"
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"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ambarišt",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "ամբարիշտ"
},
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"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "xcl",
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"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "ամբարիշտ"
},
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"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezbóžen",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "безбо́жен"
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"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "gudløs"
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"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "jumalaton"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "Jumalaa pelkäämätön"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "impie"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "urc̣muno",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "ურწმუნო"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "unchristlich"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "gottlos"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "afguþs",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "𐌰𐍆𐌲𐌿𐌸𐍃"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "aníeros",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "ανίερος"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "atheófovos",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "αθεόφοβος"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "asebḗs",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "ἀσεβής"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "istentelen"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "szentségtelen"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "szentségtörő"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "gudløs"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "ugudelig"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "gudlaus"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "gottlooss"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nečestívyj",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "нечести́вый"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nevérujuščij",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "неве́рующий"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "impío"
},
{
"_dis1": "98 1 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "ogudaktig"
}
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"word": "virtuous"
}
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{
"text": "People often turn to ungodly ideas as an emotional response to trauma.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1604, Jeremy Corderoy, A Short Dialogve, vvherein is Proved, that No Man can be Saved vvithout Good VVorkes, 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 40",
"text": "[N]ow ſuch as liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, [...]",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1666, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; or, A Brief and Faithful Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant, John Bunyan. […], London: […] William Drew […], published 1771, →OCLC, paragraph 26, page 17",
"text": "[T]here ſat within the woman of the houſe, and heard me; who, though ſhe was a very looſe and ungodly wretch, yet proteſted, that I [John Bunyan] ſwore and curſed at that moſt fearful rate, that ſhe was made to tremble to hear me; and told me further, that I was the ungodlieſt fellow for ſwearing that ever ſhe heard in all her life; and that I, by thus doing, was able to ſpoil all the youth in the whole town, if they came but in my company.",
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{
"ref": "1973, Matt Braun, chapter 4, in El Paso, St. Martin’s Paperbacks edition, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, published July 1999, page 103",
"text": "Did some ungodly specter ride with him that neither he nor his horse had been hit? By what miracle had he come through that hail of lead without so much as a scratch?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1981, K. M. Peyton [pseudonym; Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton], chapter 5, in Flambards Divided, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 1999, page 91",
"text": "In the past, she could remember exactly the same sourness of that ungodly emotion [jealousy] when she had noticed how Violet, Dick's sister, had loved Mark, [...]",
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"Immoral, sinful, or wicked."
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"immoral"
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[
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[
"wicked",
"wicked#Adjective"
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{
"word": "evil"
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{
"word": "immoral"
}
]
},
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"Human",
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"text": "We had to start our journey at an ungodly hour.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "1915, Norman Douglas, “A Mountain Festival”, in Old Calabria, London: Martin Secker […], →OCLC, pages 151–152",
"text": "It is a vast picnic in honour of the Virgin. [...] A heaving ebb and flow of humanity fills the eye; fires are flickering before extempore shelters, and an ungodly amount of food is being consumed, as traditionally prescribed for such occasions—\"si mangia per divozione.\"",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1998 August 3, Tom Clancy, “The Games Begin”, in Rainbow Six, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published September 1999",
"text": "The minibus pulled up to an upscale hotel, whose bell staff were awake, even at this ungodly hour.",
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"Extreme; unreasonable."
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"(informal) Extreme; unreasonable."
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"word": "dreadful"
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{
"word": "indecent"
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{
"word": "outrageous"
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"_dis1": "1 2 96",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḡayr maʕqūl",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
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"word": "غَيْر مَعْقُول"
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"_dis1": "1 2 96",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezbožen",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "безбожен"
},
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"_dis1": "1 2 96",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "indécent"
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"_dis1": "1 2 96",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "schrecklich"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 96",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "fürchterlich"
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{
"_dis1": "1 2 96",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "unmöglich"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 96",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "képtelen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 96",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "nonszensz"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 96",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "lehetetlen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 96",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "borzalmas"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 96",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "hajmeresztő"
},
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"_dis1": "1 2 96",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "bezbożny"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 96",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "atroz"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 96",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "horrible"
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]
}
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"text": "[N]ow ſuch as liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, [...]",
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"ref": "1973, Matt Braun, chapter 4, in El Paso, St. Martin’s Paperbacks edition, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, published July 1999, page 103",
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"ref": "1981, K. M. Peyton [pseudonym; Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton], chapter 5, in Flambards Divided, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 1999, page 91",
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{
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"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "gudløs"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "ugudelig"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "gudlaus"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "gottlooss"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nečestívyj",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "нечести́вый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nevérujuščij",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "неве́рующий"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "impío"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "lacking reverence for God; not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings",
"word": "ogudaktig"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḡayr maʕqūl",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "غَيْر مَعْقُول"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezbožen",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "безбожен"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "indécent"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "schrecklich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "fürchterlich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "unmöglich"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "képtelen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "nonszensz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "lehetetlen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "borzalmas"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "hajmeresztő"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "bezbożny"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "atroz"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(informal) extreme; unreasonable",
"word": "horrible"
}
],
"word": "ungodly"
}
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"English adverbs",
"English lemmas",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʰedʰ-",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leyg- (like)",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ne",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms prefixed with un-",
"English terms suffixed with -ly (adjectival)",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"en:Personality"
],
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro"
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"expansion": "",
"name": "dercat"
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"2": "ine",
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"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "godli",
"t": "excellently; pleasingly, splendidly; courteously, graciously; gladly, willingly; righteously; properly, rightly; at all, possibly; much"
},
"expansion": "godli (“excellently; pleasingly, splendidly; courteously, graciously; gladly, willingly; righteously; properly, rightly; at all, possibly; much”)",
"name": "m"
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"1": "en",
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"3": "gōdlīċe",
"t": "goodly"
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"name": "der"
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{
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"2": "gōd",
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"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*gʰedʰ-",
"t": "to join, unite; to suit"
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"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to join, unite; to suit”)",
"name": "der"
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{
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"1": "adverb"
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"name": "glossary"
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{
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"1": "ang",
"2": "-līċe",
"pos": "suffix forming adverbs"
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "un-",
"3": "good",
"4": "-ly",
"id3": "adjectival"
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"expansion": "un- + good + -ly",
"name": "af"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "ongodelike"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch ongodelike",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "ongodlike"
},
"expansion": "ongodlike",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "ongoddelijk"
},
"expansion": "Dutch ongoddelijk",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "ungöttlich"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German ungöttlich",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "ogudelike"
},
"expansion": "Swedish ogudelike",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "ogudlike"
},
"expansion": "ogudlike",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "both obsolete"
},
"expansion": "(both obsolete)",
"name": "qualifier"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "ogudligt"
},
"expansion": "ogudligt",
"name": "m"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "more ungodly",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most ungodly",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ungodly (comparative more ungodly, superlative most ungodly)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"un‧god‧ly"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 123",
"text": "It is ungodly made, fashioned by man, a beast spun from fire and steel.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In an impious, irreverent, or ungodly manner; ungodlily."
],
"links": [
[
"impious",
"impious"
],
[
"irreverent",
"irreverent"
],
[
"ungodly",
"#Adjective"
],
[
"ungodlily",
"ungodlily"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) In an impious, irreverent, or ungodly manner; ungodlily."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ʌnˈɡɒdli/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ʌnˈɡɑdli/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-ungodly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-ungodly.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
],
"text": "Audio (RP)"
},
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"audio": "En-us-ungodly.mp3",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/En-us-ungodly.mp3",
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"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"word": "ungodly"
}
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