amoral

adjective

amor·al (ˌ)ā-ˈmȯr-əl

(ˌ)a-,

-ˈmär-

: having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong

amoral politicians

an amoral, selfish person

: being neither moral nor immoral

specifically : lying outside the sphere to which moral judgments apply

Science as such is completely amoral. —

W. S. Thompson

: being outside or beyond the moral order or a particular code of morals

amoral customs

amoralism

(ˌ)ā-ˈmȯr-ə-ˌli-zəm

(ˌ)a-

-ˈmär-

noun

amorality

ˌā-mə-ˈra-lə-tē

ˌa-

-(ˌ)mȯ-

noun

amorally

ˌā-ˈmȯr-ə-lē

(ˌ)a-

-ˈmär-

adverb

Examples of amoral in a Sentence

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The Morning Show pulls enough from contemporary news stories to resemble a 2020s update of The Newsroom, but with a funhouse-mirror slant toward the gleefully amoral rather than the Sorkin-ly preachy. —

Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 July 2024 Building a lexicon around shame creates an easy dichotomy − one that separates foods, and our desire for them, into good and bad, sinful and pure, moral and amoral. —

Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024 One runs hot, brilliant, amoral, and insatiable; the other, deliberate and circumspect, cold and damp as some eyeless cave creature. —

Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2024 Neville is being more immediately threatened by the developer’s local thug, Egg (David St. Louis), completely amoral and frightening but with a lovely singing voice. —

Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for amoral