| 词汇 | example_english_immorality |
| 释义 | Examples of immoralityThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Opponents of legal moralism often argue against the view that the immorality of some behavior is sufficient for legally prohibiting it. As such, it follows a recurrent trope that juxtaposes a religious exterior with its underlying immorality. All of these developments led to a more mobile and more urban population with concomitant possibilities for immorality and criminality. But when the justification for punishment is offense and not immorality, the offense principle might remain conceptually distinct from global legal moralism. Horror at western immorality or the communal numbers game, though, might have pushed in another direction. Like the cancer of immorality, it spread into every area of spiritual, cultural, intellectual endeavor. But that does not wash away their immorality. The intent of this incorporation was to limit, if not destroy, the chinganas, which the nineteenth-century elite interpreted as putrid lairs of deviance and immorality. The reformist discourses of the nineteenth-century jihad still had great weight, and these identified female immorality and par- ticipation in public life as a problem. The immorality of instrumental ethnicity was frowned upon as tending to exacerbate social instability. This is not enough to show that all such behavior is morally permissible, since some immoralities may not be rights violations. Going against the laws of nature is not a good candidate of immorality, either, mainly because it is not possible. One must not see in adulteries, he noted, a proof of the absolute immorality of customs. Such selfidentification was common, though certainly not universal as other bandits made no bones about the immorality of their occupation. A desire for special devoutness was not required, only that the single person avoided immorality. In other words poor physical health is read as a sign of immorality. When we recall that filth was invariably associated with immorality, the "foul and fearful poison" threatening the suburban wife takes on a horrifying moral dimension. Clerical immorality, the inevitable result of an unnatural vow, led to a moral decline among the laity. It is hard to see where any immorality could be lurking in this step of the process. It is difficult to imagine a public figure who would promote immorality, laziness, and selfishness as desirable virtues. Permitting immorality harms society by undermining society's morality, upon which the society depends for its continued existence. Other memoirs talk vaguely of immorality among young people in rural areas. But the control of female morality (or immorality) was not the only motivation of the reformers. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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