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morality

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


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Businesses in Afghanistan's western city of Herat have suffered from a downturn in female customers opting to stay home following a recent crackdown by morality police on women's attire, according to shopkeepers, drivers and residents.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

Freddy has a keen sense of how to ride a social media trend, and because he’s a huge Cristiano Ronaldo fan, it’s reasonable to question his authenticity and morality.

From Slate Jun. 25, 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

Vampires, like rock stars, are the ultimate free spirits released from morality and the laws binding humans who can’t afford expensive lawyers.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

If they were right, he observed, “such phenomena as heredity and memory and intelligence, and our ideas of morality and religion ... are explainable in terms of positive and negative electrons and ether.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

More to the point, Hardy and Easton wrote, “pleasure is a complete and worthwhile goal” that needs neither validation nor antiquated moralities.

From Washington Post Feb. 10, 2023

Faith, politics, organized crime and shaded moralities haunt postwar Los Angeles, viscerally exposing the lie that this city of perpetual sun and stray breezes is paradise.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 17, 2019

I’d love to hear the atheist perspective on what makes for a good religion, or the reason why different religions support different moralities.

From Salon Mar. 25, 2013

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

From The Guardian Feb. 22, 2013

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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