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
Even amoral or timorous lawyers will hesitate to misbehave if it becomes clear that doing so endangers their livelihood.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025
After directing “Shadow World,” a 2016 archival dive into the amoral world of the global arms trade, he wanted to investigate something that was right in front of him yet harder to see.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 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.
