What's the difference between immoral and pure?

Immoral


Definition:

  • (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.

Pure


Definition:

  • (superl.) Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
  • (superl.) Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.
  • (superl.) Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.
  • (superl.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
  • (superl.) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have confirmed this directly by showing that pure CCK is a potent inhibitor of gastric emptying.
  • (2) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
  • (3) A cytogenetic and anatomopathologic study of an embryo of 24 mm crown-rump length showing pure triploidy (69,XXY) is reported.
  • (4) Of the three patients with a pure or predominantly endometrioid pattern treated with diethylstilbestrol, two had a marked clinical response.
  • (5) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
  • (6) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
  • (7) Enzyme activities were measured on nitrocellulose blots by using pure enzyme preparations as well as Triton X-100-solubilized membranes.
  • (8) A critical attitude towards the use of silicone breast implants, when these are used for purely cosmetic purposes, is recommended at present.
  • (9) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
  • (10) Of the two major forms of cytotactin (220 and 200 kDa), the larger form predominated during development of the mouse brain and also predominated in mixed neuron-glia cultures but not in pure glial cultures.
  • (11) Embryonal carcinomas were found in 15 tumours, two being of pure type and the remaining 13 a part of mixed tumours.
  • (12) While the precise function of the MIRP is not known, the availability of this protein in pure and biologically relevant quantities will allow further studies to elucidate its pathobiologic function.
  • (13) Differential plating yielded relatively pure populations of chromaffin cells that demonstrated excellent viability if processed within 2 hours after cessation of the gland's circulation.
  • (14) Homogenates of these cells in chloroform-methanol solution showed an identical absorption spectrum with pure bilirubin dissolved in the same solution.
  • (15) An autopsy on the next day revealed pure pulmonary alveolar hemorrhage without leukemic infiltration or inflammation.
  • (16) 0.5 to 1 gram pure Bismuth per day and person leaves the patients naturally by faeces.
  • (17) Moreover, exposure to a pure 60 Hz electric field or to a magnetically-induced electric field of identical strength resulted in similar changes in calcium transport.
  • (18) Pure sarcomas of the esophagus are exceedingly rare.
  • (19) Confirmation of the identity of the clone was provided by a match between the amino acid sequence predicted from the cDNA sequence and the actual amino acid sequence determined for a tryptic peptide fragment of one of the pure glycoproteins.
  • (20) Six were benign, 11 malignant fibrous, and 3 pure malignant histiocytomas.