词汇 | immoral |
释义 | immoral adjective uk /ɪˈmɒr.əl/ us /ɪˈmɔːr.əl/ B2 morally wrong, or outside society's standards of acceptable, honest, and moral behaviour: 不道德的,道德败坏的 an immoral act不道德的举动 immoral behaviour不道德的行为 It's an immoral tax, because the poor will pay relatively more.这是不道德的税收,因为穷人相对要付出更多。 Compare amoral moraladjective immoral earningsUK money earned from prostitution (= having sex in exchange for money): 卖淫所得 live off immoral earningsIf convicted, she could be jailed for five years for living off immoral earnings.如果被判有罪,她可能会因靠卖淫为生坐5年牢。 Morally wrong and evil abhorrent abhorrently amoral amorality anomie dissipated dissolute dissolutely dissoluteness enormity nefariously nefariousness no goodidiom no more Mr Nice Guyidiom non-ethical tawdry trespass turpitude unconscionable unconscionably Related wordsimmorally immorality immoral | American Dictionaryimmoral adjective us/ɪˈmɔr·əl, ɪˈmɑr-/ not following accepted standards of morally right behavior or thought: Discrimination on the basis of race is immoral. immoralitynoun[ U ]us/ˌɪm·ɔˈræl·ɪ·t̬i/ the immorality of lying Examples of immoralimmoral And his recommendations would involve those who followed them in unwise, unnecessary, ineffective, and immoral actions. If the universalist were to call for moderation and liberal inclusivism at this point, this would seem totally immoral to the particularist. In the pages of women's journals, these tragic tales were placed along with explicit advice against immoral public behavior. Intrinsically morally permissible conduct, such as driving without a seat belt, does not automatically become immoral upon being criminalized. The cautious approach, on the contrary, entails that there are cases in which comparisons between action alternatives would be immoral. It is never immoral to want to retain one's own independence and identity. The embellishment by appropriate sound effects is meant to be cautionary tales against immoral behaviour, but ironically make it perfect for the privacy they seek. I conclude by considering an objection to my view which concerns whether immoral autonomous preferences are worthy of respect. It has been seen as an unethical or immoral technology that threatens the livelihood of millions of farmers, especially resource-poor farmers in developing countries. The fourth soldier does not advance because he believes that the orders are immoral. Institutions have to protect people from having to cooperate with clearly immoral behavior and having to willfully affect moral blindness. The intelligentsia in particular despised the merchants for being too conservative and immoral. Everyone must have it, to refuse it would be immoral. The fact that it would enable you to help someone is not to any extent a redeeming feature of an immoral act. As it will be demonstrated later, they were accused of being immoral and even church organizations characterized them as being of loose morals. See all examples of immoral 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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