immoral

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

im·moral BrE [ɪˈmɒrəl] NAmE [ɪˈmɔːrəl] NAmE [ɪˈmɑːrəl] adjective
1. (of people and their behaviour)not considered to be good or honest by most people
• It's immoral to steal.
• There's nothing immoral about wanting to earn more money.
2. not following accepted standards of sexual behaviour
•an immoral act/life/person
• They were charged with living off immoral earnings (= money earned by working as a ↑prostitute ).
compare ↑amoral, ↑moral
Derived Words: ↑immorality ▪ ↑immorally

Thesaurus:
immoral adj.
•Is it immoral to want to be a millionaire?
wrong • • unethical • • improper • • unfair • • unjust • • unequal • |formal inequitable •
Opp: moral
immoral/wrong/unethical/improper/unfair/unjust to do sth
immoral/unethical/improper behaviour/conduct

Example Bank:
•For him, the besetting sins of the age were greed and sexual immorality.
•She argued that the state not only denied women the vote but also tacitly condoned male immorality and sexual violence.
•She faced public abuse and accusations of immorality.


Example Bank:
•He condemned the government's action as immoral.
•That sounds vaguely immoral.
•Don't you think it's immoral to leave thousands of children without an education?
•I think this is an unjust and immoral war.
•The current president is both inefficient and immoral.
•There's nothing immoral about wanting to earn more money.