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单词 immorality
释义
immorality
noun[U]
uk
/ˌɪm.əˈræl.ə.ti/us
/ˌɪm.əˈræl.ə.t̬i/
behaviourthat ismorallywrong, oroutsidesociety'sstandardsof what isacceptable:
不道德，道德败坏
Weattemptedto show the immorality of thewar.我们试图展示战争的不道德性。
They areworriedaboutrampantdrugabuseandsexualimmorality.他们对猖獗的药物滥用和不道德的性行为感到担忧。
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immoral
More examples
  • It isdifficulttodrawadistinctlinebetweenmoralityand immorality.
  • Ideas about immorality and whatconstitutesdishonourableconductchangeovertime.
  • Somechurchmembershavegottensoconcernedwithperceivedimmorality in theworldthat they havealmostshutthemselves off toprotectthemselves from it.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Morally wrong and evil
  • abhorrent
  • amoral
  • amorality
  • anomie
  • antichrist
  • disgrace
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • dissolutely
  • dissoluteness
  • no more Mr Nice Guyidiom
  • non-ethical
  • obscene
  • obscenely
  • obscenity
  • turpitude
  • unconscionable
  • unconscionably
  • unethical
  • unprincipled
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(Definition ofimmoralityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimmorality

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Opponents of legal moralism often argue against the view that theimmoralityof some behavior is sufficient for legally prohibiting it.
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As such, it follows a recurrent trope that juxtaposes a religious exterior with its underlyingimmorality.
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All of these developments led to a more mobile and more urban population with concomitant possibilities forimmoralityand criminality.
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But when the justification for punishment is offense and notimmorality, the offense principle might remain conceptually distinct from global legal moralism.
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Horror at westernimmoralityor the communal numbers game, though, might have pushed in another direction.
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Like the cancer ofimmorality, it spread into every area of spiritual, cultural, intellectual endeavor.
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But that does not wash away theirimmorality.
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The intent of this incorporation was to limit, if not destroy, the chinganas, which the nineteenth-century elite interpreted as putrid lairs of deviance andimmorality.
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The reformist discourses of the nineteenth-century jihad still had great weight, and these identified femaleimmoralityand par- ticipation in public life as a problem.
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Theimmoralityof instrumental ethnicity was frowned upon as tending to exacerbate social instability.
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This is not enough to show that all such behavior is morally permissible, since some immoralities may not be rights violations.
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Going against the laws of nature is not a good candidate ofimmorality, either, mainly because it is not possible.
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One must not see in adulteries, he noted, a proof of the absoluteimmoralityof customs.
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Such selfidentification was common, though certainly not universal as other bandits made no bones about theimmoralityof their occupation.
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A desire for special devoutness was not required, only that the single person avoidedimmorality.
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