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/ˌɪmərˈælɪti/ Listen

noun

Immorality n. (pl. immoralities)

The state or quality of being immoral; vice. "The root of all immorality."

An immoral act or practice. "Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them."

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Etymology of 'Immorality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Immorality" Quotes from Famous Books

... about the terrible wickedness of the lower-class native, his gambling, his immorality, his almost fanatical desire to murder everyone he sees; and for complete and detailed lists of crimes and monstrosities appeal to any newcomer, who will be delighted to hold forth on the subject; ...

— Argentina From A British Point Of View • Various

... corrupt styles of architecture and corrupt styles of drawing and painting, as might easily be illustrated by the history of art. When the leaders of society have blunted their finer perceptions by dissipation and immorality, they are incapable of feeling the beauties which come from delicate concords and truly artistic combinations. They verge towards barbarism, and require things that are strange, odd, dazzling, and peculiar to captivate their jaded senses. Such we take to be the ...

— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... going on between Dora and myself was a riddle to which I vainly sought a solution. That this cynic who charged every man and woman with immorality should, in the circumstances, be so absolutely undisturbed in his confidence regarding his wife seemed nothing short of a miracle. When I now think of the riddle I see its solution in a modified version of the old rule concerning the mote in thy neighbor's eye and the beam in thine own ...

— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan

... you would let me circumcise the girl early in life, I believe it would be more certain." There is considerable truth in his statement. A hooded clitoris produces a constant irritation which tends to lead to habits of self-abuse and perhaps immorality. ...

— Herself - Talks with Women Concerning Themselves • E. B. Lowry

... was merely amused by Bottger's hostility. She scorned her scorn, and with the utmost scientific and ethnological support declared that clothes were immoral in origin, and the cause of immorality and extravagance, since they were not the human integument. Jambers was not quite sure what "integument" was, but she thanked God she had never had it ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

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