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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Contrary to established moral principles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not moral; not conforming to or consistent with the moral law; unprincipled; dissolute; vicious; licentious.
- Contrary to good order or public welfare; inimical to the rights or common interests of others: a legal and commercial sense.
- Synonyms Illegal, Wicked, etc. See
criminal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
moral ;inconsistent withrectitude ,purity , or goodmorals ; contrary toconscience or thedivine law .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- adjective deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
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Examples
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Obama for dedicating a month to what she called the immoral behavior, that would be Gay pride month.
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ROBERTS: The big legal point here is this idea that he gave her a train ticket, brought her down from New York, interstate trafficking in women for what they call immoral purposes.
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The pope is urging them not to fill prescriptions that have what he calls immoral purposes.
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Pope Benedict XVI is urging catholic pharmacists not to fill prescriptions that have what he calls immoral purposes.
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HAMMER: You ` re not going to believe what else he said about Ellen DeGeneres and what he calls immoral move restars.
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In Saudi Arabia, religious leaders have repeatedly lashed out against movies, music, and many television shows which they call immoral and worthless.
Infidels Are Cool 2009
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He said it was the Government's "responsibility to protect the people of Malaysia" from what he described as immoral Western influences.
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To say that she thinks it's immoral is a perfectly accurate report of her own ethical judgement.
Archive 2010-05-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Will the ACLU try to force, with guns if necessary, citizens to associate with those who indulge in immoral behavior?
Think Progress » ACLU will sue high school that canceled prom to stop lesbians from attending. 2010
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Will the ACLU try to force, with guns if necessary, citizens to associate with those who indulge in immoral behavior?
Think Progress » ACLU will sue high school that canceled prom to stop lesbians from attending. 2010
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Words with the same meaning
- abandoned
- amoral
- bad
- base
- carnal
- concupiscent
- conscienceless
- corrupt
- corrupted
- criminal
- crooked
- dark
- debauched
- degenerate
- depraved
- devious
- dirty
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- dissolute
- doubtful
- dubious
- evasive
- evil
- felonious
- filthy
- fishy
- flagitious
- fraudulent
- ill-got
- ill-gotten
- immodest
- impure
- indecent
- indirect
- iniquitous
- insidious
- lascivious
- lecherous
- lewd
- libertine
- libidinous
- licentious
- loose
- lustful
- nefarious
- nonmoral
- not kosher
- obscene
- pornographic
- profligate
- questionable
- reprobate
- rotten
- salacious
- shady
- shameless
- shifty
- sinful
- sinister
- slippery
- smutty
- steeped in vice
- suspicious
- treacherous
- tricky
- unchaste
- unclean
- uncleanly
- unconscienced
- unconscientious
- unconscionable
- underhand
- underhanded
- unethical
- unjust
- unmoral
- unprincipled
- unregenerate
- unsavory
- unscrupulous
- unstraightforward
- vice-laden
- vice-prone
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- wanton
- wicked
- without remorse
- without shame
- wrong
- wrongful
rasiaha commented on the word immoral
Brutality is Immoral
April 13, 2020