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immorality

UK/ɪməˈɹælɪti/US/ɪməˈɹælɪti/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,034 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: immoralities

Immorality is behaviour that breaks moral rules. Charged with immorality, public immorality, sheer immorality.

It is a judgement against a standard, which is why what counts as immorality changes so much between times and places — the word says as much about the accuser as the act. Note amorality, which is different: an immoral act breaks a rule and an amoral person recognises no rules at all.

Definitions of immorality

  1. 1nounimmoralityBehaviour that breaks moral rules.B2+

    “The preacher warned his congregation about the immorality of gambling.”

immorality is a moral fault.

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immorality in the wild

  • Evil, as a concept, is usually defined as profound immorality, and it is related to acts that cause pain and suffering to others.

    Evil

  • Fredro was harshly criticized by some of his contemporaries for light-hearted humor or even alleged immorality which led to years of his literary silence.

    Aleksander Fredro

  • Lord Stanhope proposed establishing the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Women's Royal Air Force to investigate any immorality.

    Violet Douglas-Pennant

  • No OCIC Award was given this year due to the "unusual immorality" of the films.

    19th Venice International Film Festival

  • The school courted controversy in 2014 by requiring students and staff to sign agreements vowing to abstain from "sexual immorality" including homosexuality.

    Heritage Christian Academy (Calgary)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.