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- noun uncountable
Lack orabsence ofmorality .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being amoral
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Examples
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The rationale behind societal amorality is the myopic question: "How does my immoral behavior hurt you?"
Our Pal Joey? 2008
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The characters are well developed enough, and their relentless amorality is fairly well-portrayed.
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Moral ambiguity I can handle, amorality is harder for me to immerse myself in, but I want to write a fully developed villain, so I’m having to figure it out.
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That is exactly why "self-sacrificing" or "altruistic" behavior is such a problem for a theory, evolution, grounded in amorality.
Carry-Over Thread 2007
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Not that people shouldn't be wary of others, and take precautions -- but that there is a kind of amorality to trolls which is highly creepy.
"Trolling is basically Internet eugenics... I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed." Ann Althouse 2008
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Not that people shouldn't be wary of others, and take precautions -- but that there is a kind of amorality to trolls which is highly creepy.
"Trolling is basically Internet eugenics... I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed." Ann Althouse 2008
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Brian's view could be best expressed charitably as a some type of transnational amorality, meaning the US should not look after its own interests because they are no more important then the interest of any other nation-state or peoples the same with socio-political values, national security and established borders.
What is up with Econolog? « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2006
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Usually those who dislike it have a bad reaction to Quinn's "amorality" about killing.
Archive 2004-09-01 Holly 2004
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Usually those who dislike it have a bad reaction to Quinn's "amorality" about killing.
an ethics lesson Holly 2004
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Such a seemingly innocuous observation, yet as Logan evolves from student, to writer, to secret agent, to art gallery dealer, we see how it informs a kind of amorality in his character that propels him to sleep with his college mate's girlfriend and, later, the same man's wife, marry a woman he doesn't love and then push her aside when he meets the real love of his life.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chronicle dwiegand@sfchronicle.com (David Wiegand 2011
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