adjective
definition
Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law.
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Examples of immoral in a Sentence
Miracles alone cannot vindicate the divinity of immoral doctrine.
He found an ignorant and corrupt society ruled by an immoral yet fanatical monarch.
Finally, it may be noted that many immoral acts, such as the use of false weights, lying, &c., which could not be brought into court, are severely denounced in the Omen Tablets as likely to bring the offender into " the hand of God " as opposed to " the hand of the king."
His father, a man of immoral life, was with difficulty persuaded to cohabit with his wife.
Further, though it is the province of reason to test this revealed system, and though it be granted that, should it contain anything immoral, it must be rejected, yet a careful examination of the particulars will show that there is no incomprehensibility or difficulty in them which has not a counterpart in nature.
Maybe he realized their relationship was immoral.
The records of the town show that he was burned in effigy as a Huguenot and as shamefully immoral (1554).
In his private life Ranjit Singh was selfish, avaricious, drunken and immoral, but he had a genius for command and was the only man the Sikhs ever produced strong enough to bind them together.
Atonement is a dream, and an immoral dream.
His influence with the conference turned that body from its opposition to higher education as immoral in tendency to the establishment of secondary schools and colleges.
He did not indeed escape calumny, and was even denounced on a charge of immoral practices, but fully and honourably acquitted.
Afterward she was embarrassed - as if they had done something immoral.
His dilatoriness during the second embassy (346) sent to ratify the terms of peace led to his accusation by Demosthenes and Timarchus on a charge of high treason, but he was acquitted as the result of a powerful speech, in which he showed that his accuser Timarchus had, by his immoral conduct, forfeited the right to speak before the people.
Their devices to shirk work and deceive the masters seemed to me silly and immoral.
Her immoral actions turned her husband into an unwitting cuckold.
He earned the surname of "Pious" by banishing his sisters and others of immoral life from court; by attempting to reform and purify monastic life; and by showing great liberality to the church.
For the latter reason alone, many medical ethicists consider it to be a profoundly immoral procedure when done on humans.
And if you are doing something immoral, Jesus will call you away from that.
The dance was soon considered immoral with its flirting music!
Even to dream of a national home would then become immoral.
Moreover, there is a corruption feature that allows gamers to make evil and arguably immoral decisions.
Part of its popularity lay in the forbidden nature of the dance; it was considered licentious and immoral, which made it all the more attractive to the youth of the time.
As long as the child is not doing anything immoral or illegal, then he or she should be allowed to channel the grief into another activity.
Owing to certain circumstances in its past history, Geneva was notoriously immoral.
The sale of slaves (male and female) for immoral and gladiatorial purposes was forbidden; the custom of putting all the household to death when their master was murdered was modified.
Robert Burns, the poet, in a letter dated August 1784, describes the sect as idle and immoral.
His successors were Simeon, called Titus; Gegnesius, an Armenian, called Timotheus; Joseph, called Epaphroditus; Zachariah, rejected by some; Baanes, accused of immoral teaching; lastly Sergius, called Tychicus.
One class of Abolitionists sought to evade the difficulty by strained interpretations of the clauses referred to, while others, admitting that they were immoral, felt themselves obliged, notwithstanding, to support the constitution in order to avoid what they thought would be still greater evils.
The forms of worship were known to be trivial or mischievous, the myths unworthy or immoral.
Surrogacy was a large leap for someone who thought artificial insemination was immoral.
God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Archeological finds confirm that these nations were grossly immoral and wicked.
And they have awful immoral indignation if you hate them back, yet they still hate you if you don't.
Much of the nation was then taken away captive to Babylon - one of the richest but most pagan and immoral of cities.
All classes were admitted to the festival, but the immoral and the impure were warned off by a solemn initiatory proclamation.
Dragging TA and regular reservists away from their families and sending them to the desert to fight an immoral and illegal war is outrageous.
Whilst the public welfare offenses are thought of not as evil or immoral but as criminal and punishable because they are prohibited by statute.
Even such thoroughly immoral cultures as that of white slaveholders would seem sufficient to ground the sorts of national partiality she defends.
For a town or country laborer to practice thrift would be absolutely immoral.
His somewhat tongue-in-cheek immoral displays earn the full approval of the young Nik Cohn, who writes the book at an exhausting intensity.
His immoral behavior shocked people. In 1905, he met the tsarina of Russia - Alexandra.
He found an ignorant and corrupt society ruled by an immoral yet fanatical monarch, who wasted millions on unprofitable buildings though the country was almost without roads and the people had become the most backward in Europe.
The law deals with the constitution of the local senates, for whose members qualifications of age (30 years) and military service are laid down, while persons who have suffered conviction for various specified offences, or who are insolvent, or who carry on discreditable or immoral trades are excluded.
Living in the grossly animal court of the empress Elizabeth, bound to a husband whom she could not but despise and detest, surrounded by suitors, and entirely uninfluenced by religion, Catherine became and remained perfectly immoral in her sexual relations to men.
It is not uncommon in popular writings to attribute this superiority to a crusader strain - a theory which no one can possibly countenance who knows what miserable degenerates the half-breed descendants of the crusaders rapidly became, as a result of their immoral life and their ignorance of the sanitary precautions necessary in a trying climate.
To the prophets Hosea and Amos the cultus of Bethel was superstitious and immoral, even though it was Yahweh himself who was worshipped there (see Bethel).
Moderate and compliant with the popular religion as Alfarabius and Avicenna had always been, as compared with their Spanish successor, they had equally failed to conciliate the popular spirit, and were classed in the same category with the heretic or the member of an immoral sect.
Innocent seeming companies are often part of big immoral corporations, bringing more moral quandaries.
If the secession of the slave states was truly immoral, than of what possible import was the legal right?
On the flip side, wearing makeup in Victorian days was associated with an immoral nature, so women would pinch their cheeks constantly to make them appear red.