sense of morality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandmorality
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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morality
noun
uk/məˈræl.ə.ti/us/məˈræl.ə.t̬i/
a set of personal or social standards for good or bad behaviour ...
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(Definition ofsenseandmoralityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The nursery songs were mainly taught to students in order to develop musicality, an intrinsic feeling for beauty and asenseofmorality.
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Therefore, we can hardly say that the law had no other function than to stimulate the people'ssenseofmorality.
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These characteristics owed much to an inner conviction that drew on a strong personal piety, and a clearsenseofmorality; a conviction inclined to rectitude, not subtlety.
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Wegner allows such effects, however, namely asenseofmoralityand responsibility.
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That is not much of a tribute to their standards or theirsenseofmorality.
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We should also remember that local authorities, because of their democratic nature, generally have a bettersenseofmoralitythan the business world.
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They are going to suffer from oursenseofmoralitybecause we do give them the sort of facilities they ought to have.
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It is opposed to the most elementarysenseofmoralityin those countries.
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I will vote according to thesenseofmoralitythat the debate has given me.
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Lawyers have asenseofmoralityand a commitment to justice.
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Nobody with any sense of what constitutes the well-being of the people or with anysenseofmoralityor decency could tolerate such a situation.
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As we have already heard, we have to bring asenseofmoralityto bear on the arms trade.
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The policy is entirely bereft of anysenseofmorality.
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We do have asenseofmorality.
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We all have asenseofmorality.
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It is the only place where they will have any sense of right and wrong or of desirable and undesirable behaviour or be given anysenseofmoralityand immorality.
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One of the great concerns of our time should be not only abnormal or defective minds but moral defectives or amoral people with nosenseofmorality.
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All that has to be explained to the publicsenseofmorality, and some of it, although not all of it, will have to be explained to juries.
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