How to Use immoral in a Sentence

immoral

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  • It was immoral of her to tell lies like that.
  • Don't condemn her: there was nothing immoral about what she did.
  • The idea of walking sacred ground in the nude was immoral.
    — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 15 June 2015
  • Trump simply does not see the world in terms of moral/immoral or right/wrong.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 29 May 2018
  • And that’s true — slavery was immoral, and there’s no doubt about it.
    — Washington Post, 26 May 2017
  • Declaring yet again that Ukraine must take the first step is both immoral and naive.
    — Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The Trump team has chosen the immoral route — and now hopes to muddy the story line.
    — Scot Lehigh, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
  • All nine justices agreed that the bar on immoral marks must be thrown out.
    — S.m. | New York, The Economist, 25 June 2019
  • What’s moral and what’s immoral these days, and where is the dividing line?
    — Allen Pierleoni, sacbee.com, 26 May 2017
  • And what about the people who see betting on sports as immoral or tawdry?
    — CBS News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • That seems like an immoral trade off, if that’s the calculus.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
  • In his view, an immoral person simply cannot be a good artist.
    — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
  • That the men seem to be more unhinged and immoral the higher up the ladders of power is not subtle.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Vladimir Putin is a monster whose cause is unjust and immoral.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Democrats and left-wing activists had called the wall xenophobic and immoral.
    — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 2 June 2022
  • Trying to say that coffee was of equal value felt immoral to me.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2020
  • To them, 1989 was an immoral deal as most apparatchiks got off scot-free.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Leaving the homeless to fend for themselves is immoral, O’Quinn said.
    — al, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The deputy was charged with one count of accosting a child for immoral purposes.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The rift is brought on because Cate believes Eric’s job is immoral.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • And, Bellow could have added, the immoral often seek to be moral exemplars.
    — WSJ, 5 June 2022
  • That’s immoral, and that’s what’s happening in our country right now.
    — Essence, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The film’s debut was controversial, as it was banned by the Catholic Clergy and dubbed immoral.
    — ELLE, 29 Sep. 2022
  • This is adultery, plain and simple, and your acceptance of it is immoral.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2021
  • To keep Geter from receiving this job, let alone firing him, is immoral.
    — Amy Wang, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017
  • President Obama did a heck of a job, to compare him to what this guy is doing is immoral.
    — Tovin Lapan, Fortune, 28 June 2019
  • Cinemas, long seen as immoral, will soon open and in June women will be allowed to drive.
    — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • To cut short these death throes is both impious (for those who believe) and immoral (for anyone).
    — Michel Houellebecq, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • Some newspapers went so far as to suggest that the flames were the act of a vengeful God and the price paid for an immoral relationship.
    — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Large majorities of Republicans and Democrats view members of the opposing party as close-minded and immoral.
    — Preeti Kulkarni, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024

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