Morality - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |məˈrælətɪ|  American pronunciation of the word morality
Brit.  |məˈrælɪtɪ|  British pronunciation of the word morality

noun

- concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong (syn: ethics, morals)

Extra examples

The group is calling for a return to traditional morality.

The decision may be legally justified, but I question its morality.

The authorities are protectors of public morality.

The morality of capital punishment is a frequent subject of debate.

The morality brigade insists that the book be censored.

But Vietnam is hard to sell as a tidy, cathartic morality tale of troubled times overcome.

They are attempting to legislate morality.

...the preacher delivered a thundering speech on the decline of morality in modern society...

...a conservative Christian sect with a code of sexual morality that is often seen as quaintly Victorian by outsiders...

Private morality, in crude terms, is not the law's business.

Unemployment is not the issue - the real problem is the decline in public morality.

Can all our efforts towards morality prevail over the forces of evil?

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent

Word forms

noun
singular: morality
plural: moralities
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