be immoral
Example Sentences
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Like many young people, Tony is a world-historically spoiled man who is nevertheless cursed, thanks to timing, to live out the end of an enterprise he knows on some level to be immoral.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2021
He added: "It may be immoral to keep an empire because the people of the third world have an inalienable right to self-determination, but that doesn't matter whether it's moral or immoral."
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2021
Of course there are actions that may be immoral, wrong or evil but not technically illegal.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2021
They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2020
“You are well enough to leave. It would be immoral to turn a child out into the streets, so you will be taken to the orphan house.”
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
