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immoral
adjective /ɪˈmɒr.əl/
/-ˈmɑːr-/ Definition
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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. → Compare amoral, moral adjectiveMorally wrong and evilDishonest 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.Earning money and money earnedSexual devices and the sex industry immorally
/-i/ adverb Morally wrong and evilDishonest immorality
/ˌɪm.əˈræl.ə.ti/
/-ɑːˈræl.ə.t̬i/ noun [U]
/-ɑːˈræl.ə.t̬i/ noun [U] (Definition of immoral adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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