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immorality

[im-uh-ral-i-tee, im-aw-] / ˌɪm əˈræl ɪ ti, ˌɪm ɔ- /




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The bishops complained of immorality, but Heidegger remained philosophical.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Shaffer, whose plays include “Equus,” “The Royal Hunt of the Sun” and “Black Comedy,” is drawn to existential reckonings, and in “Amadeus” he’s written his cris de coeur on the immorality of the universe.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 2026

Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said that intelligence agencies had been ordered to identify and report on what he called "organised trends promoting immorality and non-veiling".

From BBC Dec. 6, 2025

What we're in is a complete crisis of the whole basis of how we make decisions, and the short-termism and the irrationality and immorality of those decisions.

From Salon Oct. 24, 2024

They were the actions of a man frustrated with the immorality of apartheid and the ruthlessness of the state in protecting it.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

For all the brazen immoralities and the raunchy jokes that jam her scripts, Ms. Headland, who had a strict Catholic upbringing, remains a deeply moral writer.

From New York Times Aug. 18, 2016

A member since 1995, Ms. Adams said the expulsion reflected a change in the group, whose previous dinners were rife, she said, with disturbances and immoralities of various kinds.

From New York Times Jan. 17, 2014

Whatever its immoralities, it commits them on the whole because it enjoys them, and not because it wants to demonstrate against Victorian conventions or shock Babbitt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover let me say that the bill is chiefly an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities . .. yet I do not object, My Lords.

From Time Magazine Archive

He understood, he said, that the voice of the swearer was scarcely heard; that the Sabbath was well observed, and all immoralities discountenanced.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams




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