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[ UK /ɪmˈɒɹə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈmɔɹəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not adhering to ethical or moral principles
    cheating is dishonorable
    a base, degrading way of life
    base and unpatriotic motives
    they considered colonialism immoral
    unethical practices in handling public funds
  2. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

How To Use immoral In A Sentence

  • 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. Bestiality Tourist Stephen Clarke Charged With Lying On Visa After Sex With Dogs
  • 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!” A Renegade History of the United States
  • 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.
  • he acted immorally when his own interests were at stake
  • In the year 1698, Jeremy Collier, a distinguished nonjuring clergyman, published _A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
  • My fiancée says that it would be immoral for me to claim the dole for this month. Times, Sunday Times
  • How could a court ever adjudicate between a legislature's claim that a particular exercise of liberty is ‘immoral’ and a defendant's contrary claim that it is not?
  • Mirreen, in a statement issued to press, regretted that obscenity and immoral activities are on the rise.
  • The villagers hated them, and spread malicious gossip about their immorality and irreligion. Times, Sunday Times
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