amoral vs immoral
immoral
Definitions
adjective
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
Examples
The dangers for girls were especially acute: “It is estimated that two-thirds of the girls who appear before the Court charged with immorality owe their misfortune to influences derived directly from the movies, either from the pictures themselves or in the ‘picking up’ of male acquaintances at the theatre!”
Part of me thinks this sounds completely immoral; part of me thinks it sounds horribly thrilling.
The later patriarchal cultures denounced them as immoral and wanton.
