amoral
Example Sentences
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Thompson’s universe may be grim, but it is not amoral.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
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
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
“I almost didn’t say anything. I thought, what’s in the past is past. Maybe she’s made a new life. But I see you’ve raised your daughter to be just as amoral as you.”
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
