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UK
/ɪməɹˈælɪti/
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[ US /ˌɪmɝˈæɫɪti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmɝˈæɫɪti/ ]
NOUN
- morally objectionable behavior
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the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct
the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction
How To Use immorality In A Sentence
- 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
- 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
- The villagers hated them, and spread malicious gossip about their immorality and irreligion. Times, Sunday Times
- The prevalence of infi - delity, immorality and vice as surely indicates ap - proaching calamities, as clouds indicate a shower, winds forebode a storm, or the conjunction, or op - position of the sun and moon, in certain places in the heavens, presignifying an eclipse. Sermons delivered on various occasions : first published singly, now republished and collected into a volume, with two new one, never before printed
- In Galatians 5: 19-21 the list is headed by sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness, and idolatry.
- Their pleasure was not happiness, contemporaries charged, but egotism, immorality, indulgence, and vice.
- We did not and will not think for one moment to target them even if they were people of immorality and debauchery.
- The Profumo scandal showed that some acts of indiscretion and immorality would not be overlooked.
- Racial attitudes existed parallel to hardening attitudes towards immorality and vice, which required the same segregation that racial separation would soon require as well.
- Extremism and fanaticism - religious or secular - are the fountain of injustice and immorality. Dr T.P.Chia