im·mor·al·i·ty

(ĭm′ô-răl′ĭ-tē, ĭm′ə-)

n. pl. im·mor·al·i·ties

1. The quality or condition of being immoral.

2. An immoral act or practice.

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immorality

(ˌɪməˈrælɪtɪ)

n, pl -ties

1. the quality, character, or state of being immoral

2. immoral behaviour, esp in sexual matters; licentiousness; profligacy or promiscuity

3. an immoral act

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im•mo•ral•i•ty

(ˌɪm əˈræl ɪ ti, ˌɪm ɔ-)

n., pl. -ties.

1. immoral quality, character, or conduct.

2. sexual misconduct.

3. an immoral act.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	immorality - the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct; "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction" quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare unrighteousness - failure to adhere to moral principles; "forgave us our sins and cleansed us of all unrighteousness" depravation, depravity, degeneracy, putrefaction, corruption - moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction" corruptibility - the capability of being corrupted licentiousness, wantonness - the quality of being lewd and lascivious anomie, anomy - lack of moral standards in a society wrongness - contrary to conscience or morality evilness, evil - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world" morality - concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct
	2.	immorality - morally objectionable behavior evil, wickedness, iniquity evildoing, transgression - the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle; "the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father" devilry, deviltry - wicked and cruel behavior foul play - unfair or dishonest behavior (especially involving violence) irreverence, violation - a disrespectful act sexual immorality - the evil ascribed to sexual acts that violate social conventions; "sexual immorality is the major reason for last year's record number of abortions"

immorality

noun wickedness, wrong, vice, evil, corruption, sin, depravity, iniquity, debauchery, badness, licentiousness, turpitude, dissoluteness a reflection of our society's immorality
goodness, morality, honesty, purity, lawfulness

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

immorality

noun

1. A wicked act or wicked behavior:

crime, deviltry, diablerie, evil, evildoing, iniquity, misdeed, offense, peccancy, sin, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing.

2. Degrading, immoral acts or habits:

bestiality, corruption, depravity, flagitiousness, perversion, turpitude, vice, villainousness, villainy, wickedness.

Translations

فُجور، لا أخلاقيَّه، فَساد

nemravnost

umoralskhed

Unsittlichkeit

immoralité

siîleysi

immoralit...immoralità

umoralskhet usedelighet

nemravnosť

ahlâksızlık

道德败坏

immorality

[ˌɪməˈrælɪtɪ] N → inmoralidad f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

immorality

[ˌɪməˈrælɪti] n → immoralité f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

immorality

n → Unmoral f; (of behaviour also) → Unsittlichkeit f; (of person also) → Sittenlosigkeit f; (= immoral act) → Unsittlichkeit f

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immorality

[ˌɪməˈrælɪtɪ] n → immoralità

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

immoral

(iˈmorəl) adjective

wrong or wicked. immoral conduct.

imˈmorally adverb

ˌimmoˈrality (-ˈrӕ-) noun

immorality

n. inmoralidad.

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Her visitors were startled and fascinated by the foreignness of this arrangement, which recalled scenes in French fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of.

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Then there was the Vicar of Ferne, a bearded, fine figure of a man: his wife had been forced to leave him because of his cruelty, and she had filled the neighbourhood with stories of his immorality. The Vicar of Surle, a tiny hamlet by the sea, was to be seen every evening in the public house a stone's throw from his vicarage; and the churchwardens had been to Mr.

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"Nothing," answered Margaret, wondering what would have happened if she had added: "Though she did resent my husband's immorality."

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held its convention that night in San Francisco.* This convention had been called to consider public immorality and the remedy for it.

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Though, instead of that, you'd never believe it--the drunkenness, the immorality! They keep chopping and changing their bits of land.

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One of the most beautiful of all his poems Wordsworth calls by the cumbrous name of Intimations of Immorality from recollections of Early Childhood.

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Sparsit in an undertone, and much dejected by the immorality of the people.

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Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the whim of men every bit as brutal and unscrupulous as the old-time slave drivers; under such circumstances immorality was exactly as inevitable, and as prevalent, as it was under the system of chattel slavery.

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To read pathetic accounts of missionary hardships, and glowing descriptions of conversion, and baptisms, taking place beneath palm-trees, is one thing; and to go to the Sandwich Islands and see the missionaries dwelling in picturesque and prettily furnished coral-rock villas, whilst the miserable natives are committing all sorts of immorality around them, is quite another.

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Newman had a great contempt for immorality, and that evening, for a good half hour, as he sat watching the star-sheen on the warm Adriatic, he felt rebuked and depressed.

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I discharged my best captain for immorality. So did I my cook, and a better never boiled water in Manatomana.

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The growing indignation was voiced from time to time in published protests, of which the last, in 1698, was the over-zealous but powerful 'Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage' by Jeremy Collier, which carried the more weight because the author was not a Puritan but a High-Church bishop and partisan of the Stuarts.

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