immorality

A universal standard for immorality in art may be an impossibility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

In its famous showstopper, “Ya Got Trouble,” con man Harold Hill warns the River City townsfolk about supposed dens of immorality, and the children notice Matty in the crowd, holding a bundle.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2025

In August last year, seven TikTokers were sentenced to six months in prison by a court in the capital, Mogadishu, for provoking civil unrest and spreading immorality.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025

The series, which ran from 1999 to 2006, depicted Washington as a place where despite the politicking and immorality, the Constitution prevailed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024

Ill And they inevitably move into more and more, worse and worse, illegality and immorality.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

Profligate has reference to open and shameless immoralities, either in private life or political conduct; as, a profligate court, a profligate ministry.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster