单词 | unmoral |
释义 | unmoraladj. Not moral; having no moral sense or standards, immoral; unconcerned with morality. ΘΚΠ society > morality > [adjective] > of rights or obligations unmoral1627 moral1690 immorala1761 amoral1882 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iv. ii. 292 These Lawes of the Graecians were not more dishonest and vnmorall then were those of the Gaules and Saxons..vncivill and barbarous. a1686 Earl of Anglesey Mem. (1693) 146 You have afforded the Age so fair a Specimen of Writing with Morality about a Tenet very unmoral. 1784 Symposia Apol. p. lix In order to cleanse them [sc. foundation schools] of the unmoral principles which have become so fashionable. 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iv. §13. 254 The disorganisation and imperfection of the unmoral part of the universe. 1855 F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 17 These beings are unmoral, and neither virtuous nor vicious. 1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley (1940) xxix. 330 The book, gross, sexual, and unmoral though it be, points a very definite moral. 1967 Spectator 28 July 103/3 To an unsocialist, socialism is as unmoral as it is fatuous. 2001 Sunday Times (Nexis) 17 June This is a clever, original and satisfyingly unmoral tale. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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