(a.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s immoral.” On Twitter, Harris has occasionally mentioned his background when debating these matters.
(2) It is socially very divisive, it is stigmatising, it is subtly slanderous and it is immoral.
(3) The public would consider such schemes "completely and utterly and totally immoral" and those involved in devising and marketing them were "running rings around" tax officials, she said.
(4) Whatever the dogma, opposition to it is not just wrong, it is immoral.
(5) Fishing news Barcelona chairman Sandro Rosell says Arsenal were "immoral" to poach their youth player Jon Toral: "We don't like it that clubs come in with offers of money just before boys turn 16.
(6) People who campaigned against controls were conducting an immoral campaign.
(7) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
(8) It’s not illegal and it’s not immoral, but it’s probably best that we don’t talk about it at parents’ evening.’ Even at seven, she asked ‘But why is that a bad thing?’ And I said, ‘Well it’s not, but not everybody sees it that way.’” They moved to a new home, where both her neighbours and the school have been supportive and protective of her.
(9) Prominent physicians have recently stated that it is not immoral for a physician to assist in the rational suicide of a terminally ill patient.
(10) If you are a whistleblower like Edward Snowden, who tells the press about illegal, immoral or embarrassing government actions, you will face jail time.
(11) That, said the court today, "would make the whole trial not only immoral and illegal, but also entirely unreliable in its outcome".
(12) In the US, activists including the American Civil Liberties Union argue that it is immoral to claim ownership of humanity's shared genetic heritage.
(13) "Attempts to stop people communicating are in principle counter-productive and even immoral.
(14) Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, said Mandela was a "great man" who had made racism "not just immoral but stupid".
(15) The means test would have applied to cancer patients and stroke survivors, and was denounced by Lord Patel, a crossbencher and former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians, as an immoral attack on the sick, the vulnerable and the poor.
(16) One is that Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman empire in the early 19th century, denuded the Parthenon of much of its sculpture immorally, or even illicitly.
(17) He added: "These statistics show keeping aid promises is worth the world – and that breaking them should be deemed immoral."
(18) Profumo's confession and the Ward trial broke open the shell of the old establishment, exposing its immorality and incompetence.
(19) She felt the modern western world dealt badly with death – "the idea that mortality is a failure" – and that to waste time or use it without pleasure was "almost immoral".
(20) Walter wanders deeper into a world of which he previously knew nothing, deeper into immorality, but as the viewer you are always able to understand why he's doing it.
Incisor
Definition:
(a.) Adapted for cutting; of or pertaining to the incisors; incisive; as, the incisor nerve; an incisor foramen; an incisor tooth.
(n.) One of the teeth in front of the canines in either jaw; an incisive tooth. See Tooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
(2) After loss of permanent central incisors the treatment of choice could be either orthodontic closure or maintenance of the gap for a replacement-prosthetic, autotransplantation or implant.
(3) The roots of the incisor teeth should, if possible, be placed accurately in this zone and a method of achieving this is suggested.
(4) Blood flow changes in the dental pulp of lower canine teeth of mature cats and incisors of mature rats were investigated with simultaneous laser Doppler flowmetry and local 125I-clearance (wash-out) during electrical sympathetic stimulation, efferent stimulation of n. alveolaris inferior (IAN) (cats) and i.a.
(5) Maxillary and mandibular incisors and premolars of three rhesus monkeys were used.
(6) A case history is presented of a 10-year-old patient, who accidentally injured her maxillary central incisor.
(7) The results suggest that there is a general tendency for tooth mortality to be lower in the present survey and this change is particularly noticeable for maxillary incisor and canine teeth.
(8) Erosion was observed on all teeth, but was commonest on the upper incisors, canines and premolars, and severest on palatal surfaces.
(9) The ability to perceive thickness differences between the incisors was more accurate after 1 hour's chewing than normally.
(10) The localization of alkaline phosphatases in dentinogenically active rat incisor odontoblasts was studied by means of subcellular fractionation and electron microscopical histochemistry.
(11) Orthodontic closure of the space from both sides was performed with fixed appliance, leaving the remaining central incisor in the midline.
(12) Monkey incisor teeth were pulpotomized in groups of 10.
(13) Maximal and submaximal bite forces were measured at the incisor and right and left first molar bite positions.
(14) 16 maxillary and mandibular permanent lateral incisors of four dogs aged from 5 to 7 months were immediately replanted without endodontic treatment.
(15) To study tooth development longitudinally, the timing of the beginning of calcification of one maxillary central incisor was assessed from occlusal X-rays taken between the ages of 2 and 18 months in 107 of the above mentioned 131 subjects.
(16) Four weeks after replantation, a more than threefold increase in PBF was measured in premolars with two roots, while PBF in premolars with one root and incisors was consistently reduced to an average of 40% of the controls.
(17) The reproducibility of this surgical technique was demonstrated as well as its usefulness in combination with survey sections for multi-method investigations of rat incisor enamel formation and mineralization.
(18) From each sample was counted the number of odontoclasts appearing on the root surface and measured the volume of the root in the maxillary deciduous incisor.
(19) The results indicate that the tongue-to-teeth contact area of each sound differ from the others, however, it's range is confined within cervical half of lingual surface of incisors and lingual cusps of molars.
(20) GAP-43-like immunoreactivity in developing and mature incisor and canine tooth pulp nerve fibers in the cat was examined with fluorescence immunohistochemistry and pre-embedding immunogold electron microscopy.