immorality
Noun
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The quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct (synset 104857820)
"the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction"is a type of: quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someonesubtypes:
- unrighteousness - failure to adhere to moral principles
- corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction - moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
- corruptibility - the capability of being corrupted
- licentiousness, wantonness - the quality of being lewd and lascivious
- anomie, anomy - lack of moral standards in a society
- wrongness - contrary to conscience or morality
- evil, evilness - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
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Morally objectionable behavior (synset 100746935)
is a type of: evildoing, transgression - the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principlesubtypes:
- devilry, deviltry - wicked and cruel behavior
- foul play - unfair or dishonest behavior (especially involving violence)
- irreverence, violation - a disrespectful act
- sexual immorality - the evil ascribed to sexual acts that violate social conventions
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