amoral
Example Sentences
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Mao and his Communists, he argues, embraced this celebration of the amoral.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
If Pericles’ funeral oration is a landmark of democratic virtue, the amoral facts of pure force become explicit in the “Melian dialogue” following the Athenian conquest of the neutral island of Melos in 415 B.C.:
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Those ideas all came from a simple thesis: that capitalism is amoral and will gobble up anything it’s allowed to gobble up.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025
In “Barking Dogs Never Bite,” he probes what viewers see as ethical food versus amoral, offensive cuisine.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025
“That is need expressed in all its amoral simplicity. But any regrets now?”
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
