Immoral

//ɪˈmɒɹəl// adj

adj ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Breaching principles of natural law, rectitude, or justice, and so inconsistent with the demands of virtue, purity, or "good morals"; not right, not moral. (Compare unethical, illegal.)

    "Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous."

Adjective
  1. 1
    deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong wordnet
  2. 2
    not adhering to ethical or moral principles wordnet

Synonyms

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degeneratewronguglyabandonedaberrantamoral

Example

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"His immoral actions did not go unnoticed."

Etymology

From im- + moral.

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divine law

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