good morals
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The civil code would also allow judges to base some rulings on vaguely defined "good morals" -- a provision Human Rights Watch warned would be "opening the door to arbitrary interpretation".
From Barron's ● May 17, 2026
He then defecated in the bathtub of his room in an act "that damaged hotel property and violated public order and good morals", said the CXA statement.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2023
According to the medical model and the moral model it evolved from, people who are sick or disabled are abnormal and "bad", lacking both good health and, presumably, good morals.
From Salon ● May 14, 2023
The leaders of the English church and government agreed that men and women should have good morals, but viewed their Puritan critics as potential subversives.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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It was then considered, in that land of good morals and fine esthetic sense, that no impropriety was involved in this custom.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train