immoral
adjective
im·mor·al
(ˌ)i(m)-ˈmȯr-əl 
-ˈmär-
: not moral
broadly
: conflicting with generally or traditionally held moral principles
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Examples of immoral in a Sentence
Don't condemn her: there was nothing immoral about what she did.
It was immoral of her to tell lies like that.
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The high court in 2017 struck down a section of the law that barred registration of disparaging marks and did the same for a provision prohibiting immoral or scandalous marks in 2019.
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 13 June 2024
Government deficits are a symptom of the abandonment of the moral truths of individual rights and limited government for the immoral lies of the welfare-warfare state and the fiat money system that underlies it.
—Ron Paul, Orange County Register, 11 June 2024
Still, in California and the rest of the country, older, Republican and religious Americans — particularly Protestants — were less likely to support civil rights for LGBTQ+ people and more likely to think their conduct was immoral.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
This means that Smith, as his lawyers claimed in efforts to stop his execution, became a human subject in an immoral experiment.
—The Editors, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 13 June 2024
Government deficits are a symptom of the abandonment of the moral truths of individual rights and limited government for the immoral lies of the welfare-warfare state and the fiat money system that underlies it.
—Ron Paul, Orange County Register, 11 June 2024
Still, in California and the rest of the country, older, Republican and religious Americans — particularly Protestants — were less likely to support civil rights for LGBTQ+ people and more likely to think their conduct was immoral.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
This means that Smith, as his lawyers claimed in efforts to stop his execution, became a human subject in an immoral experiment.
—The Editors, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
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“Immoral.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immoral. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024.
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immoral
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im·mor·al
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-ˈ(m)är-
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