Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: immorality
IPA transcription: [,ɪmɚ'ælɪti]
Pronunciations of immorality
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity
    Meaning: morally objectionable behavior
  • Synonyms: immorality
    Meaning: the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct; "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction"
Usage examples
  • It has been gravely asserted that the confession of sin and the doctrine of absolution tend to the spread of crime and immorality.
  • Her visitors were startled and fascinated by the foreignness of this arrangement, which recalled scenes in French fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of.
  • The phrases that the good, kind people repeat to themselves and to one another sound like "abstinence," "temperance," "thrift," "virtue." Sometimes they say them backward, when they sound like "prodigality," "drunkenness," "wastefulness," and "immorality." They do not really know the meaning of these phrases, but they think they do, and that is all that is necessary for somnambulists.
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