immoral vs amoral
Definitions
adjective
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
Examples
Prosecutors say a zoophilic British tourist broke that law when he wrote on a visa waiver application that he had never been convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude and wasn't entering the U.S. to engage in criminal or immoral activities.
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.
