amoral
Example Sentences
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It’s not amoral to exercise exceptional prudence when considering an attack on another country, no matter how odious you may find its government.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026
It is human nature to project our phobias, prejudices and obsessions onto what is simply a biological contest between our immune system and the amoral pathogens trying to replicate themselves within us.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 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
It plunges readers into the amoral world of the super-rich.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
As if this account didn’t already suffer from an overdose of amoral individuals.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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