immoraladjective
uk/ɪˈmɒr.əl/us/ɪˈmɔːr.əl/B2 morally wrong, or outside society's standards of acceptable, honest, and moral behaviour:
an immoral act
immoral behaviour
It's an immoral tax, because the poor will pay relatively more.
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amoral
moral adjective
immoral earnings
money earned from prostitution (= having sex in exchange for money):
If convicted, she could be jailed for five years for living off immoral earnings.
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Morally wrong and evil
- abhorrent
- amoral
- anomie
- arch-villain
- be rotten to the core idiom
- canker
- darkly
- evil
- evildoer
- go to the bad idiom
- godless
- hanky-panky
- heinous
- scandalous
- seamy
- seedy
- shocking
- shockingly
- wicked
- wickedness
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Earning money
immorally
adverb uk/ɪˈmɒr.əl.i/us/ɪˈmɔːr.əl.i/
immorality
noun [ U ] uk/ˌɪm.əˈræl.ə.ti/us/ˌɪm.əˈræl.ə.t̬i/