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morality

[muh-ral-i-tee, maw-] / məˈræl ɪ ti, mɔ- /


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About 20 aid workers were arrested in June near the Iran border in Herat province by Afghanistan's morality police, because their beards were not long enough.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

DR Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner wrote to the owners of Arsenal and PSG and to Bayern president Herbert Hainer to "question the morality" of the deals.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

But there are unusual rewards for an intrepid company willing to test the boundaries of political and artistic morality.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Jimmy Carter’s campaign pledge of “a government as good as its people” spoke to the restoration of morality in public life but proved inadequate to the challenges of the late 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

I did not hate the young man; I did not see him as the enemy; I did not ponder issues of morality or politics or military duty.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

In each case, she examines her life through the lens of fairy tales, demonstrating how we can draw on their moralities and imageries to make sense of ourselves and our relationship to others.

From Washington Post Apr. 11, 2023

But dig a little deeper and the play reveals a society in transition — new moralities wrestling with moribund conventions that refuse to die.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2022

Migrants from southern Italy brought their own moralities and dialects, which Pasolini documented with ethnographic exactitude.

From The Guardian Feb. 22, 2013

They are not motivated by simple human moralities, by universalized appeals to the superego such as “good cat” or “bad cat,” by guilt culture or shame culture.

From Slate Jun. 30, 2012

The intensity had not abated after two years, nor had her awe at his self-assured eccentricities and his fierce moralities.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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