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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
immoral
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ I am referring to a level of promiscuity which even the most liberal heterosexual would regard as immoral.
▪ His negative expression of this belief in bipolarity was his denunciation of neutrality, which he characterized as immoral.
▪ Is this to be judged as immoral?
▪ For many people at the time such practices were regarded as immoral.
▪ While Asquithians were attacking the Black and Tan policy as immoral, the Unionists were accusing the government of irresolution.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Critics complain that the lyrics of the song encourage anti-social and immoral behavior.
▪ In many such stories, women are portrayed as untrustworthy and immoral.
▪ Many people think that testing cosmetics on animals is immoral.
▪ My parents think my lifestyle is both dangerous and immoral.
▪ Their church believes that dancing is sinful and immoral.
▪ To spend £23 billion on nuclear weapons is immoral, and a terrible waste of money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the sadistic, immoral thrills of a million lifetimes put together could not begin to equal what I felt.
▪ I can only point out the immoral lifestyle that accompanied his profession and the evidence of spiritual deceit.
▪ Many welfare opponents vilify recipients as lazy and immoral cheats and con artists.
▪ Or what is moral or immoral.
▪ Sometimes we accept that morality changes; that, what was immoral once is not immoral now.
▪ The point is that the activity itself, in this case combustion, is not by itself moral or immoral.
▪ They are impossible, immoral, and out of step with the whole history of salvation.
▪ Today teachers can still be fired for immoral conduct, but in most states such conduct must be linked to teacher effectiveness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immoral

Immoral \Im*mor"al\, a. [Pref. im- not + moral: cf. F. immoral.] Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.

Syn: Wicked; sinful; criminal; vicious; unjust; dishonest; depraved; impure; unchaste; profligate; dissolute; abandoned; licentious; lewd; obscene.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
immoral

1650s, from assimilated form of in- (1) "not" + moral (adj.). Related: Immorally.

Wiktionary
immoral

a. Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law.

WordNet
immoral
  1. adj. violating principles of right and wrong [ant: moral, amoral]

  2. not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds" [syn: base, dishonorable, dishonourable, unethical]

  3. morally unprincipled; "immoral behavior"

  4. characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life" [syn: bad]

  5. marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat" [syn: depraved, perverse, perverted, reprobate]

Usage examples of "immoral".

The published records of the Inquisition refer incessantly to preachers of this kind who denied private property, asserted that no rich man could get to heaven, and attacked the practice of almsgiving as something utterly immoral.

Its report, submitted in March last year, overwhelmingly disproved the charges that the medical experiments upon animals are immoral and unjustifiable.

Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their servants and families: very likely they are right.

In conventional terms, some satire would be considered decidedly immoral, designed to violate the norms of a moral code it regards as restrictive or wrong-headed.

California candidate for congress announced his platform as simply, No Pensions for the Immoral.

But although satires may have norms, norms are not essential to satire, which may make judgments by internal shifts of perception that do not appeal to external values or by identifying the satiric object as ridiculous rather than immoral.

That the intermeddling of any State or States, or their citizens, to abolish slavery in the District, or any of the Territories, on the ground, or under the pretext, that it is immoral or sinful, or the passage of any act or measure of Congress with that view, would be a direct and dangerous attack on the institutions of all the slaveholding States.

He could even be fun in an appalling way - chainsmoking, swearing, drinking and dealing through the property market, and he was a good teacher so long as you remembered to isolate the immoral and illegal elements of his advice.

And it ought also to moderate that foolish talk about French duelists and socialist-hated monarchs being the only people who are immoral.

The Miznarii considered even implants immoral modifications of the basic human, so those of their children seeking higher education were always at a disadvantage.

And these two instituted a suit against baseball on constitutional grounds, asserting that organized baseball was in violation of the Antitrust Laws, and that the owners, by trading players from one team to another without their permission, treated them like pieces of property, which was both illegal and immoral.

But little was got by this move, for an answering placard explained to the unfortunate county how deep would be its shame, if it allowed itself to became the appanage of any peer, but more especially of a peer who was known to be the most immoral lord that ever disgraced the benches of the Upper House.

This Brandy Bottle Bates is a big, black-looking guy, with a large beezer, and a head shaped like a pear, and he is considered a very immoral and wicked character, but he is a pretty slick gambler, and a fast man with a dollar when he is in the money.

He said he never gambled, but still was satisfied that the meddling with cards in any way was immoral and injurious, and no man could be wholly pure and blemishless without eschewing them.

The state of excitement in which I was, the ardour with which I had made the affair mine, might have led anyone to suppose that my indignation had been roused only by disgust at seeing an odious persecution perpetrated upon a stranger by an unrestrained, immoral, and vexatious police.