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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

He also urged them to repeal or make substantial revisions to what he described as "problematic provisions" in the EIT Law – namely, those criminalising alleged immorality, defamation and hate speech.

From BBC Mar. 11, 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

The immorality of the bantustan policy, whereby 70 percent of the people would be apportioned only 13 percent of the land, was obvious.

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

Their immoralities reached their climax at Lüde near Pyrmont.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz




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