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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
amoral
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an amoral, greedy businessman
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For some one who appeared so gleefully wicked and amoral, Cleo seemed surprisingly dim when it came to character judgment.
▪ Guy was greedy, amoral, obsessed with power and self-gratification.
▪ His soulless eyes are narrowed and sullen, and his arch goatee recalls an amoral Transylvanian count.
▪ Only Humphrey Bogart, in his later years, could bring the right sort of edge to this amoral, curmudgeonly character.
▪ The completely technocratic and amoral society emerges, able to manipulate anything but appreciate nothing; a desert of the mind.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
amoral

"ethically indifferent," 1882, a hybrid formed from Greek privative prefix a- "not" (see a- (3)) + moral, which is derived from Latin. First used by Robert Louis Stephenson (1850-1894) as a differentiation from immoral.

Wiktionary
amoral

a. 1 (context of acts English) being neither moral nor immoral 2 (context of people English) not believing in or caring for morality and immorality

WordNet
amoral

adj. without moral standards or principles; "a completely amoral person" [syn: unmoral] [ant: moral, immoral]

Wikipedia
Amoral

Amoral may refer to:

  • Amorality, the absence of morality; for example, a stone, a chair, or the sky may be considered amoral
    • Specific amorality, the absence of some particular moral standard, principle, code, or knowledge
  • Moral nihilism, the belief that the notion of morality is meaningless
  • Amoral (band), Finnish metal band
Amoral (band)

Amoral is a metal band from Helsinki, Finland. They play technical, progressive, melodic, hardrock oriented metal. The band's 4th album was an about-turn, replacing the dominance of quirky death metal with an exemplary display of riff-driven, heavy, yet melodic power groove and the occasional sing-along chorus. Amoral has performed extensively in bars, clubs, festivals and other venues in Finland, Europe, Japan, China, Philippines and USA.

Usage examples of "amoral".

One of these was acertain Wong Feng, a completely gross, completely evil and amoral Eurasian.

She would have been perfect for Yossarian, a debauched, coarse, vulgar, amoral, appetizing slattern whom he had longed for and idolized for months.

That monstrous, repulsive, amoral race which, not excepting even the Eich themselves, achieved the most universal condemnation ever to have been given in the long history of the Galactic Union.

Who would be the godless, amoral, sin-ridden damned of Los Angeles, source of the filth-tide that was polluting America.

And Liten, and the residents thereupon, had provided that amusement Krave was no fool, though, nor was he completely amoral.

Earth has been taken over by a nasty, corrupt, bureaucratic military dictatorship, more banana republic writ large and high-tech than efficiently fascist, though utterly fascist economically, run in an amoral fashion by a generalissimo named Myson for the greedy profit of himself and his cronies.

As all know, the picaro is an amoral rascal who would rather live by his wits and his sword than the sweat of his brow.

Great King Wauk had been a great warrior, but an amoral monster in his personal life.

In his heart he had given up the amoral preserves of banking for the riskier estates of law enforcement.

And these, his comrades, these dirty-faced roughnecks, these dangerous brutalized amoral little creatures with pinched faces and ragged trousers, spattered with snot and rheum and urban dirt, girls in stained shifts and boys with jackets too big, grabbed cobblestones from the earth and pelted me where I lay in the darkness of a decaying threshold.

Wei Ho courted her to offer a different sort of stardom, in roles where the ambitious, amoral young girl would excel.

Scratch even the nicest of them and deep down you find a misshapen, egomaniacal, amoral monster.

Back to the amoral currents of nature that, however lively and vital, still do not have to construct intersubjective cultures and do not therefore provide a model for human interaction?

Philippus, malign and amoral, famous chiefly for the number of times he had switched allegiances from one faction to another, was still alive and still occasionally attended meetings of the Senate, but his days as a force in that body were long past.

Jelly played the role of the ingratiating patch with enthusiasm and enormous skill, and Lisle Kelsko pretended to be nothing more than a hopelessly hard-nosed, hard-assed, narrowminded, amoral, authoritarian, coal-country cop.