Immorality
[ɪmə'rælɪtɪ]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct; 'the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction'.
Editor: Natasha--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
(n.) An immoral act or practice.
Typist: Steven
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wickedness, vice, sin, dishonesty, depravity, corruption, demoralization, sinfulness, criminality, profligacy, want of principle.
Editor: Myra
Examples
- A mistake, therefore, of right may become a species of immorality; but it is only a secondary one, and is founded on some other, antecedent to it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It isn't immorality--it's only habit. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Or if it be possible to imagine, that such errors are the sources of all immorality? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The father, who affected a high and rigid gravity, discountenanced all barefaced immorality. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- If the tendency to cause error be the origin of immorality, that tendency and immorality would in every case be inseparable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Typist: Phil