immoral conduct

collocation in English

meaningsofimmoralandconduct

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immoral
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmɒr.əl/us
/ɪˈmɔːr.əl/
morally wrong, or outside society's standards of acceptable, honest, and ...
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conduct
noun[U]
uk
/ˈkɒn.dʌkt/us
/ˈkɑːn.dʌkt/
behaviour:
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(Definition ofimmoralandconductfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Immoralconductis thus not merely a deficiency in one's capacity to follow moral laws or rules.
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How "free-floating" can these "immoralities" be if they are not attached to any kind ofimmoralconduct?
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The conventional reading would focus upon the duplicity and hypocrisy of its central characters: theimmoralconductof the religious revealing piety as but an outward pretense.
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I went back with my mate, and charged them both withimmoralconduct, and they were brought up to the court and fined £5 each.
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The only forms of anti-social behaviour that are specifically excluded are promiscuity and otherimmoralconduct.
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Such instructions should be based upon moral principles and spiritual considerations and should by no means be concentrated on the physical consequences ofimmoralconduct.
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It follows from this that they did not believe that the criminal law should concern itself with all forms ofimmoralconduct.
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It and its members also pushed for additional laws against perceivedimmoralconduct.
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If theimmoralconductof others impinges on someone else's autonomy, then that can be legislated against.
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Draft card protests were not aimed so much at the draft as at theimmoralconductof the war.
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