Immoral

  • 71amoral / immoral —    Amoral means having no principles at all, good or bad : Percy is totally amoral; he is either helping others or helping himself at their expense.    Immoral means bad, lacking good principles : Everything his brother does harms others whether… …

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  • 72amoral / immoral —    Amoral means having no principles at all, good or bad : Percy is totally amoral; he is either helping others or helping himself at their expense.    Immoral means bad, lacking good principles : Everything his brother does harms others whether… …

    Confused words

  • 73immemorial / immortal / immoral —    Immemorial refers to that which is beyond time, ancient: These artifacts have been here since time immemorial.    Immortal describes things that live forever: The way Randolph drives, he must think that he is immortal.    Immoral means not… …

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  • 74immemorial / immortal / immoral —    Immemorial refers to that which is beyond time, ancient: These artifacts have been here since time immemorial.    Immortal describes things that live forever: The way Randolph drives, he must think that he is immortal.    Immoral means not… …

    Confused words

  • 75amoral, immoral —    Amoral describes matters in which questions of morality do not arise or are disregarded; immoral applies to things that are evil …

    Dictionary of troublesome word

  • 76debauchery and immoral purpose — As these terms are used in the White Slave Traffic Act, by association with the term prostitution, they have been restricted in meaning to immorality consisting of sexual debauchery, and as thus limited by judicial decisions the language of the… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 77immorale — ● immoral, immorale, immoraux adjectif Qui viole les principes de la morale établie par sa conduite, sa pensée : Cet homme est profondément immoral. Qui est contraire à la morale, aux bonnes mœurs : Film immoral. ● immoral, immorale, immoraux… …

    Encyclopédie Universelle

  • 78immoraux — ● immoral, immorale, immoraux adjectif Qui viole les principes de la morale établie par sa conduite, sa pensée : Cet homme est profondément immoral. Qui est contraire à la morale, aux bonnes mœurs : Film immoral. ● immoral, immorale, immoraux… …

    Encyclopédie Universelle

  • 79immoralement — immoral, ale, aux [ i(m)mɔral, o ] adj. • v. 1660; de 1. in et moral ♦ (Personnes) Qui viole les principes de la morale établie. Homme foncièrement immoral. ⇒ corrompu, débauché, dépravé; amoral. ♢ (Choses) Contraire à la morale, aux bonnes mœurs …

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  • 80amoral — immoral, amoral Both words are applied to people, to people s actions, and to standards of behaviour. Immoral means ‘morally wrong, wicked’, whereas amoral means ‘having no morals’, i.e. ‘outside the scope of morality’ and is strictly neutral in… …

    Modern English usage