immoral

adjective

im·mor·al | \ (ˌ)i(m)-ˈmȯr-əl

, -ˈmär-\

Definition of immoral

: 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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Like many young people today, Nick wonders if becoming a billionaire is inherently immoral when poverty is still widespread. — Jason Zweig, WSJ, "When Charlie Munger Calls, Listen and Learn," 25 Jan. 2019 Surrogacy has long been a complex, mysterious, and, to some, immoral way of having children. — Danielle Mcnally, Marie Claire, "5 Women Get Candid About Why They Chose to Carry Someone Else’s Child," 1 Oct. 2018 This passage has long been used to justify immoral, un-Christian policies under the guise of the government protecting its citizens. — Ed Stetzer, Vox, "Fellow evangelicals: stop falling for Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric," 6 Nov. 2018 Religious people feel deeper emotions than those who don't follow a faith after committing moral or immoral acts. — Kelly Potts, Woman's Day, "Study Shows Religious and Nonreligious Are Equally Likely to Do Kind Things," 18 Sep. 2014 Many outsiders view the killing of a marine mammal as an act of barbarism, and Arctic communities don’t take kindly to being told that their only source of local food is immoral and off-limits. — Eva Holland, Smithsonian, "Where the Doomed, Beloved Polar Bear Is Still a Dangerous Predator," 16 May 2018 Yet the outrage centered on his old tweets rested on an assumption that Gunn and his jokes were immoral. — Aja Romano, Vox, "The “controversy” over journalist Sarah Jeong joining the New York Times, explained," 3 Aug. 2018 This is now President Trump’s policy, and the results are ugly, immoral and disgusting. — Jane Garland, latimes.com, "Detaining migrant children at the border echoes WWII internment of Japanese Americans," 19 June 2018 The original sin of reality television was to predicate it on the eternal battle between moral and immoral. — Philip Bump, Town & Country, "Why The Real Housewives Are the Perfect Guilty Pleasure," 30 May 2017

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