(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.
Nought
Definition:
(n. & adv.) See Naught.
Example Sentences:
(1) The family's efforts to bring the police officers responsible for Orun's death to justice had all come to nought.
(2) In 2008, for example, it staged Nought to Sixty, an ambitious show of 60 young artists, who presented week-long exhibitions, performances, talks, interventions, off-site projects and film screenings over six months.
(3) Britain has passed plenty of mind-boggling landmarks since 2007 when the credit crisis struck, but news that the government now owes £1 trillion – yes, that's twelve noughts – underlines just how long it will take for the economy to adjust to what Sir Mervyn King, in a speech on Tuesday night, called a "new equilibrium".
(4) Among the songs is Put Another Nought on the End … He's a Friend.
(5) Despite disagreeing with the visa cancellation, Newman had “no right to treat it as nought”, Nettle said, adding that he had shown “consummate disregard” for Australian law.
(6) The total viable counts and levels of Bacillus cereus, Clostridium welchii, Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli were determined in 294 infant foods samples from nought to eight hours after preparation.
(7) With the derestriction of broadcasting hours, those Zen-like moments of stillness on British TV – filled with Test Card F , the little girl with an Alice band playing noughts and crosses on a blackboard, or IBA engineering announcements "for the radio and television trade" – began to disappear, to be replaced eventually by an endless flow of programmes, stretching from dawn till daybreak.
(8) Even as he conceded that the buoyant growth he'd once expected for 2012 had, literally, come to nought, the Bank of England's governor saw no urgent need for fresh stimulus .
(9) Fortunately, however, a petition of the Downing Street website to install Jeremy Clarkson as PM came to nought.
(10) So IBM’s Deep Blue could beat Gary Kasparov at chess, but would struggle against a three-year-old in a round of noughts and crosses.
(11) All the bright ideas and hard work that nurse educationalists are investing in the new courses will come to nought however, if equivalent time, energy and bright ideas are not invested in updating and refreshing experienced nurses.
(12) One nice second-half run ended in too-late pass to May Steven Naismith 7 Many neat touches, but with England dominating possession he foraged for the ball too far from goal and had little impact on anything much Ikechi Anya 5 Beat Clyne cleverly in eighth minute but ran the ball out of play; attempts to repeat the trick came to nought.
(13) If Google had tried to solve the game in the same way noughts and crosses was solved, it would have had to examine and rank an obscene amount of possible positions: in the ballpark of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them.
(14) And so both chess and go are resistant to the tactic by which simpler games, such as noughts and crosses or draughts (tic-tac-toe and checkers, to Americans), have been “solved”: by enumerating every possible move, and drawing up rules for how to guarantee that a computer will be able to play to at least a draw.
(15) It's like playing roulette: we haven't hit the nought yet but we know we will at some point."
(16) But of whence their sovereignty came, the treaty saith nought.
(17) "On a risk scale of nought to 10, it was just a one.
(18) Almost all the pain of benefit cuts for the most vulnerable has come to nought.
(19) Widefeller thumped it behind for a corner, which came to nought.
(20) And it turned out all Ryan’s effort was for nought.