moral failure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandfailure
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moral
adjective
uk/ˈmɒr.əl/us/ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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failure
noun
uk/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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(Definition ofmoralandfailurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmoral failure
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But you will not consider me guilty of amoralfailure.
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This initial misunderstanding was due not only to the listeners' conflation of the concept of original sin with individualmoralfailure, as the missionaries presumed.
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This relational imaginary of power, immersed by threats of cultural proximity andmoralfailure, has perhaps not deserted postcolonial visions of economic growth and international transactions.
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Failure to help those in physical need can remain amoralfailurein a system of multiple lives in which free will plays a key role.
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Arguably, that was an even greater failure—certainly a greatermoralfailure, if not a greater failure of competence.
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I am aware that the borderline between mental andmoralfailureis still to a great extent uncertain.
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That, in so far as it exists, is amoralfailureon the part of those who have yielded to this temptation.
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These are salient points in the economic failure, let alone themoralfailure, of the present cuts.
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Of course there are enormous differences between cases, yet underlying that is amoralfailureby the man who is prepared to abandon his wife.
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The first pastor was removed formoralfailure, and a second couple was sent in to pastor the church.
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While he readily confesses to having made serious mistakes of judgment, he will not admit to any grave moral failures.
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If a person is impaired later in life, his impairment can be explained by his own moral failures.
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I believe if we close ourselves off to the facts, either by choice or by ignorance, we are culpable for our moral failures.
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The novel is characterized by a mix of eroticism, philosophical ponderings on the human condition and psychological insight, social criticism and cold descriptions of moral failures.
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