How to Use immorality in a Sentence

immorality

noun
  • The film cares more for Romy’s enveloping sense of self than the depths of her immorality.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The film cares more for Romy’s enveloping sense of self than the depths of her immorality.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
  • An immorality play where the only tragedy is that its four lissome Robin Hoods get caught?
    Ross Douthat, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Back then, the group banned television, movies and other media on the grounds of immorality.
    Manori Ravindran, Variety, 22 Nov. 2021
  • This is just a combination of too many factors––corruption, immorality, hate speech against women.
    Gina Martinez, Time, 18 July 2019
  • The empire is a symbol in the Bible of sinfulness and immorality.
    Heather Hollingsworth, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2025
  • And yet this same party is unable to see the immorality of their economic policy.
    Nish Weiseth, Cosmopolitan, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Yes, Orwell was flawed and committed many immoralities in his life, but that does not take away the genius of his work one iota.
    Amity Shlaes, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Not in the opinion of those who feared that the characters’ immorality would only feed anti-Semitism.
    Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • As punishment for the Atlanteans’ greed and immorality, the gods sent fires and earthquakes to submerge their home.
    Nili Blanck, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
  • He and his followers were forced to flee Rome under threat of a trial for corruption and immorality.
    National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
  • There were concerns about the behavior of the ancient gods — their immorality and violence.
    Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Not the immorality of our national debt … this is about securing our nation and securing our people.
    Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2024
  • This approach can be applied to any behavior, including crime and immorality.
    Christopher M. Filley, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Hank isn’t being accused of mere immorality, after all; he’s being accused of rape, which was also a crime back in Kierkegaard’s days.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Honor killing allows a husband or a close relative who suspects a wife or sister or daughter of immorality to kill her without trial.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2022
  • Even today, nearly all states have laws that permit the dismissal of a teacher for immorality, immoral character or moral turpitude.
    Kyle Greenwalt, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Start teaching and mentoring youth about concern for others in the school system, teach the basic laws of immorality and wrongful behaviors.
    Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
  • At its core, moral outrage is a response to the feeling that others are acting immorally and that their immorality is destroying society.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The history of medicine is too littered with incompetence and immorality to believe that doctors have always been worthy of this status.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Antoinette is saved from Libs of TikTok immorality by Vignal’s love of movies.
    Armond White, National Review, 27 July 2022
  • Yet to admit its immorality would be a damning indictment of her record and deeply unpopular at the CIA.
    The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • The sequel to this story might entice Ethan to rejoin his brother Joel on a murky Coen brothers immorality tale.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
  • In 1731, a woman in Nottingham was strapped into a ducking stool for immorality.
    Katie Dancey-Downs, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022
  • As president for eight years, Washington did nothing publicly to draw attention to the immorality of slavery.
    Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
  • This element of the series was often too on the nose, and much less compelling than the random displays of immorality and wickedness that make the Ushers rotten to the core.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
  • One celebrates the beauty and moral uplift of the Sabbath; the other denounces the immorality of the godless in the fiery manner of a tent-revival preacher.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
  • At the end of the decade, Franco, Simaro, and other band members were imprisoned, ostensibly for immorality.
    Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 26 June 2019
  • For me the fall of Aleppo, which was pretty recent, a few months ago, that to me captured the immorality of Obama’s Syria policy.
    Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Many researchers and activists believe that the punishment of women who gossip under the guise of immorality was just an attempt to suppress the voices of the disenfranchised.
    Alice Porter, refinery29.com, 30 Jan. 2024

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