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Immoralize

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To corrupt; to make immoral. transitive

    "But if this charge be true, then it can be no less true that the Messiah has failed, that the Christian religion is not of divine origin, since its effect and operation has been to deprave and immoralize mankind."

  2. 2
    To decry as immoral. transitive

    "His conventional Jayhawker morality causes him to immoralize thus regarding the alleged moral breakdown in Europe: “One could imagine that if God thinks war is necessary for the solution of the world's terrible problems, He will have no trouble forgiving these lapses that follow in the wake of war in France. […]"

  3. 3
    To behave immorally or promote immorality. intransitive

    "Some writers just moralize better than others immoralize."

Etymology

From immoral + -ize.

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