| 词汇 | immorality |
| 释义 | immorality noun[ U ] uk /ˌɪm.əˈræl.ə.ti/ us /ˌɪm.əˈræl.ə.t̬i/ behaviour that is morally wrong, or outside society's standards of what is acceptable: 不道德，道德败坏 We attempted to show the immorality of the war.我们试图展示战争的不道德性。 They are worried about rampant drug abuse and sexual immorality.他们对猖獗的药物滥用和不道德的性行为感到担忧。 See immoral It is difficult to draw a distinct line between morality and immorality. Ideas about immorality and what constitutes dishonourable conduct change over time. Some church members have gotten so concerned with perceived immorality in the world that they have almost shut themselves off to protect themselves from it. Morally wrong and evil abhorrent abhorrently amoral amorality anomie dissipated dissolute dissolutely dissoluteness enormity nefariousness no goodidiom no more Mr Nice Guyidiom non-ethical obscene trespass turpitude unconscionable unconscionably unethical Examples of immoralityimmorality 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. See all examples of immorality 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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