Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being immoral.
- noun An immoral act or practice.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being immoral; transgression of the moral law; immoral thought or action; wickedness; dissoluteness; licentiousness.
- noun An immoral act or practice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
- noun An immoral act or practice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
immoral ;vice . - noun An immoral act or practice.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun morally objectionable behavior
- noun the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct
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Examples
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Acting as if the phonons themselves contain immorality is laughable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Could Students Be Suspended for “Beat the Jew” Game 2010
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Acting as if the phonons themselves contain immorality is laughable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Could Students Be Suspended for “Beat the Jew” Game 2010
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Could it be that somewhere lurking beneath the defensiveness, the partisanship, the blinkered worldview, and the immorality is a little nub of a conscience?
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition 2010
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It ` s one thread in what I call the immorality quilt.
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SIMON: And Jeffs believed much of America was lured into what he called immorality and corruption.
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SIMON: And Jeffs believed much of America was lured into what he called immorality and corruption.
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Probably a majority of ethical vegetarians, vegans, and humane animal farming types, are left of center, and many of them would say that the diet of the majority of Americans implicates them in horrendous cruelty — and surely the accusation of immorality is at least as insulting to upstanding folk as an accusation of being a hick.
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August 27th, 2009 3: 09 pm ET no crime or immorality is too big to be forgiven if you are a republican.
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“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself” - Jane Addams
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Consent to sexual promiscuity and immorality is bad.
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