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Definition of amoral in English: amoraladjectiveeɪˈmɒr(ə)leɪˈmɔrəl Lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something. 无道德感的；不关心是非的 an amoral attitude to sex 对性没有道德标准的态度。 Example sentencesExamples - They are amoral whereas we have a choice to be moral or immoral.
- I wonder if, in our efforts to make our society so moral, we have, in a way, become more amoral.
- She seems to be drawn to these amoral roles; indeed, it's hard to imagine her playing someone warm or empathic.
- The television can woo the young with superficial lifestyles, the internet can unload any kind of amoral slurry into their heads.
- Who will follow their conscience when it conflicts with the demands of an amoral authority?
- Maybe the trouble is that I went to one of those amoral left-wing universities on the east coast.
- Labour weren't elected because they exemplified these contemporary moral - or amoral - values.
- It's a gritty, violent, amoral action thriller with plenty of twists and some surprisingly funny moments.
- Bored, amoral and approaching middle age he has given up on life.
- She has been exposed as an amoral, unfeeling, self-serving, despicably conscience-less human being.
- It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says this and the other side says that.
- Many think of companies as amoral, profit-hungry beasts that will do anything to promote their own selfish interests.
- An amoral society may have its advantages, but a fertile field for literary greatness is not one of them.
- Being right doesn't make you any less of an amoral bully.
- Ray is the sort of amoral lech we could never believe we'd ever fall for, right up until we're walking through the bedroom doors.
- But I find it hard to get indignant about an amoral, egomaniacal novelist refusing to save the lives of two brutal killers.
- They may well be venal, amoral egomaniacs, but the one thing you can pretty much guarantee is that they will be sharp-tongued.
- The majority of educated Americans believe that nature is the amoral scene of Darwinian struggle.
- Widespread as it may be, it is nevertheless a way of thinking that is profoundly amoral, unethical and indeed barbaric.
- It makes for delightfully entertaining reading, in a sort of surreal and amoral sort of way.
Synonyms unprincipled, without standards, without morals unethical, without scruples, unscrupulous
UsageAmoral is distinct in meaning from immoral: while immoral means ‘not conforming to accepted standards of morality’, amoral implies ‘not concerned with morality’. The difference is illustrated in the following two examples: the client pays for the amoral expertise of the lawyer; the council judged the film to be immoral and obscene Derivativesnoun Traditionalists tolerate a certain amount of amoralism in the market because they see the market as an important disciplining institution - a valuable tool of social order. Example sentencesExamples - Another is to retreat into various shades of nihilism, cynicism or amoralism, gazing blankly at a world of stone.
- Older conservatives, informed by the just-war tradition and more sensitive to the idea of absolute moral standards than to the amoralism of Machiavelli, were capable of rendering critical judgments on their own governments.
- At times, when he is demonstrating the realpolitik of court life, it seems that he is giving ‘courses of instruction in political amoralism.’
- In many of his over 150 tales, he flirts with mercilessness and amoralism.
noun The writings of a great amoralist - a de Sade, a Stirner, a Nietzsche - can inspire a handful of murders in two centuries. Example sentencesExamples - Many cognitivists have not found this a persuasive characterization of all amoralists.
- If you think atheists are all miserable, nihilistic amoralists, this book should put you straight.
- If morality were to require this of us, then we should, and would, be amoralists.
- When you understand what amoralism entails, you will see that there is no point in reasoning with an amoralist.
nouneɪməˈraləti Immorality or amorality in such a system has potential consequences that reach far beyond the well being of the individual's soul. Example sentencesExamples - Violence, profanity, and amorality all have their place in a story, if these qualities are observed or reported truths.
- That emotion, when it comes, releases us from the amorality and nastiness of our situation as voyeurs.
- But who can doubt that, in a world teeming with narcissism and amorality, in which so many in authority refuse to judge or uphold standards, it serves as a model and an inspiration for millions of Americans?
- Its background details - office meetings, package holidays - seemed as significant as the shuffle between lust and love, amorality and a search for meaning: the proximity of banality to tragedy or redemption.
adverb When was the last time you saw a doctor behaving amorally on a Medical drama? Example sentencesExamples - If their gift is used amorally they may end up manipulating others for their own benefit.
- But to protect these good and innocent people, it is necessary for the government to act amorally in a world where power politics is the only currency.
- As far as this particular scenario is concerned, ethics may as well be a county in the south of England, so amorally do the main protagonists appear to have behaved.
- Thus, her death is not a natural death; it is a death calculated by her husband and facilitated amorally and mechanically by a judge.
RhymesBalmoral, coral, immoral, laurel, moral, quarrel, sorel, sorrel Definition of amoral in US English: amoraladjectiveāˈmôrəleɪˈmɔrəl Lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something. 无道德感的；不关心是非的 an amoral attitude to sex 对性没有道德标准的态度。 Example sentencesExamples - They may well be venal, amoral egomaniacs, but the one thing you can pretty much guarantee is that they will be sharp-tongued.
- Widespread as it may be, it is nevertheless a way of thinking that is profoundly amoral, unethical and indeed barbaric.
- I wonder if, in our efforts to make our society so moral, we have, in a way, become more amoral.
- They are amoral whereas we have a choice to be moral or immoral.
- The television can woo the young with superficial lifestyles, the internet can unload any kind of amoral slurry into their heads.
- It's a gritty, violent, amoral action thriller with plenty of twists and some surprisingly funny moments.
- It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says this and the other side says that.
- An amoral society may have its advantages, but a fertile field for literary greatness is not one of them.
- Many think of companies as amoral, profit-hungry beasts that will do anything to promote their own selfish interests.
- She seems to be drawn to these amoral roles; indeed, it's hard to imagine her playing someone warm or empathic.
- But I find it hard to get indignant about an amoral, egomaniacal novelist refusing to save the lives of two brutal killers.
- Who will follow their conscience when it conflicts with the demands of an amoral authority?
- It makes for delightfully entertaining reading, in a sort of surreal and amoral sort of way.
- The majority of educated Americans believe that nature is the amoral scene of Darwinian struggle.
- She has been exposed as an amoral, unfeeling, self-serving, despicably conscience-less human being.
- Maybe the trouble is that I went to one of those amoral left-wing universities on the east coast.
- Bored, amoral and approaching middle age he has given up on life.
- Labour weren't elected because they exemplified these contemporary moral - or amoral - values.
- Ray is the sort of amoral lech we could never believe we'd ever fall for, right up until we're walking through the bedroom doors.
- Being right doesn't make you any less of an amoral bully.
Synonyms unprincipled, without standards, without morals
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