immoral

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1 BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONSmorally wrong 不道德的，道德败坏的 → amoral

Deliberately making people suffer is immoral.

故意使人吃苦头是不道德的。

It’s immoral to be rich while people are starving and homeless.

不管别人忍饥挨饿、居无定所而自己发家致富是不道德的。

2. RUDE/OBSCENEnot following accepted standards of sexual behaviour 放荡的，淫荡的；伤风败俗的

—immorally adverbadv

—immorality /ˌɪməˈræləti/ noun [uncountableU]

the immorality of bombing civilians

轰炸平民的不道德行为

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immoral• Or what is moral or immoral.• The point is that the activity itself, in this case combustion, is not by itself moral or immoral.• In many such stories, women are portrayed as untrustworthy and immoral.• Many people think that testing cosmetics on animals is immoral.• My parents think my lifestyle is both dangerous and immoral.• Their church believes that dancing is sinful and immoral.• To spend £23 billion on nuclear weapons is immoral, and a terrible waste of money.• They are impossible, immoral, and out of step with the whole history of salvation.• Critics complain that the lyrics of the song encourage anti-social and immoral behavior.• Many welfare opponents vilify recipients as lazy and immoral cheats and con artists.• Today teachers can still be fired for immoral conduct, but in most states such conduct must be linked to teacher effectiveness.• I can only point out the immoral lifestyle that accompanied his profession and the evidence of spiritual deceit.• Sometimes we accept that morality changes; that, what was immoral once is not immoral now.• All the sadistic, immoral thrills of a million lifetimes put together could not begin to equal what I felt.

It’s immoral• They're wrong, bloodsports are wrong. It's immoral.• Voice over Male speaker It's immoral to give a reward but murder is immoral.

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