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Example sentences for "immoral"

Lexicographically close words:
immodesty; immolate; immolated; immolating; immolation; immoralities; immorality; immortal; immortales; immortalibus
  1. There is wickedness enough of a purely Parisian flavour in Paris, heaven knows; but the lurid spectacles provided for the tourist are perhaps the least immoral if the most vulgar of its manifestations.

  2. Immorality, we are solemnly assured, is none the less immoral because it is not banal.

  3. Someone has said that the difference between smart society in New York and in Paris is the difference between the immoral and the unmoral.

  4. Ovid, as an immoral man, was justly punished.

  5. His poems, great as was their genius, are deficient in the severe taste which marked the Greeks, and are immoral in their tendency.

  6. Nor was this the only immoral solicitation that the woman investigator was subjected to in order to get the facts.

  7. A "line up" is the ruin of a girl who flirts with men and accepts their advances and immoral suggestions.

  8. In addition to these, seven different hotels were discovered which prostitutes claimed to be able to use for immoral purposes, though admitting that they had to be careful not to frequent them too often.

  9. The proprietors have a guilty knowledge of the fact that prostitutes and their kind use the premises as an adjunct to immoral trade.

  10. In these places the operators insist that they give straight massage and that they do not conduct an immoral business.

  11. From earlier investigations and reports it was already believed that in nine cases out of ten the practices in these places are immoral and degrading to the last degree.

  12. A prostitute, X 178, lives at this address and uses her apartments for immoral purposes.

  13. Whatever the lease may indicate to the contrary, property rented for immoral purposes produces extraordinarily large returns.

  14. The madame of an establishment in West 28th Street drove away a street walker who was soliciting men for a nearby tenement house by telling her that she would make a complaint against her for using a tenement for immoral purposes.

  15. It therefore becomes easy either to trap a girl and ruin her, or to "break in" the already immoral girl to a life of professional prostitution under protection.

  16. Four street walkers bring men to their rooms in this building for immoral purposes.

  17. Even immoral men were overwhelmed with shame at the shamelessness of the women.

  18. After every allowance made, the distinction between the arts as moral and immoral is not a clear one.

  19. The forgiveness that does away with consequences would make this an immoral world.

  20. Business always will be immoral as long as it is an end in itself.

  21. These women of quality are, no doubt, as immoral as any other women, since they are constructed of the same material, but they like to have their pride flattered by certain attentions.

  22. It was a cardinal sin, and, bed being accounted the place for sleep and not for conversation, it was admitted that a pupil who slept out of his own bed, did so only for immoral purposes.

  23. The private citizen, who employs the most immoral practices to acquire power, can only act in a manner indirectly prejudicial to the public prosperity.

  24. What I did not like about the play was the fact of her going away and taking up an immoral life instead of remaining pure and returning later to her husband.

  25. Are all men immoral who race, Mr. Dolman?

  26. That is simply an argument to prove that there is nothing immoral in communism, and does not prove in the very slightest degree that there is anything immoral in property.

  27. Finally, he who subjects himself to such influence commits an immoral act by giving up his will, his free agency, into the hands of another.

  28. THE natural order of things brings us to a consideration of the Sixth Commandment, and at the same time, of the Ninth, as treating of the same matter--a matter so highly immoral as to deserve the specific appellation of immorality.

  29. It is immoral to nourish a grudge against a fellow-man.

  30. And if this talent is employed without injustice to the neighbor or violence to the law of God, it is no more immoral than the plain telling of truth; in fact it is sometimes better than telling the truth.

  31. And it goes without saying that a man can stand an immoral aspersion better than a woman.

  32. They who avail themselves of such a permission and live in sin, may count on the protection of the law, but the law will not protect them against the wrath of the Almighty who condemns their immoral living.

  33. Dryden belonged to the preceding age; to the period of license and gayety--the greatest but most immoral of all the great poets of England, from the time of Milton to that of Pope.

  34. In poetry, the insipid and immoral songs of the Provençal bards gave place to the immortal productions of the great creators of the European languages.

  35. Sidenote: Immoral works} There can be no copyright in an immoral book, and Lord Eldon, in Southey v.

  36. He is therefore to be arraigned of nonsense and abuse of words rather than of immoral doctrines.

  37. The word is the Greek rendering of 'the children of Balaam;' that is, men of grossly immoral and disorderly lives.

  38. There was something rude and immoral in thrusting these recent facts of his life upon the mind of one who, to him, was so uncarnate as to seem at times impossible as a human wife to any average man.

  39. Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!

  40. Such things are of rare occurrence in England, owing to the immoral prejudice of the islanders respecting the code of morals in matters of politics and matrimony.

  41. Even the Paris Cancan, immoral though it may appear, has, after all, decency and grace enough to civilise half the world.

  42. This is, of course, directed against the immoral apathy attributed to Molinos.

  43. Ovid protests against the immoral doctrine of mechanical purgation with more than his usual earnestness (Fasti, ii.

  44. For, in this latter case, the disposition would not be moral, and, consequently, would not deserve that complete happiness to which reason can assign no other limitation than such as springs from our own immoral attitude of will.

  45. Many of the wandering mendicants lead an immoral life, and scandals about their enticing away the wives of rich Hindus are not infrequent.

  46. In this manner music, singing and dancing may have grown to be considered as the regular attractions of the courtesan and hence immoral in themselves, and not suitable for display by respectable women.

  47. As might be expected in a class which makes a living by immoral practices the women considerably outnumber the men.

  48. St. Paul mentions a previous warning not to associate with immoral Christians (v.

  49. It is possible that the teaching of definitely false doctrine was already combined with previously existing immoral practice.

  50. He cannot be immoral unless he is untrue.

  51. There is no such thing, per se, as an immoral subject for a play: in the treatment of the subject, and only in the treatment, lies the basis for ethical judgment of the piece.

  52. Unanimously they commit the fallacy of condemning the piece as immoral because of the subject that it deals with.

  53. The same test of truthfulness by which we distinguish good workmanship from bad is the only test by which we may conclusively distinguish immoral art from moral.

  54. He says that marriage is immoral and irreligious.

  55. It was an immoral contradiction to all right living and thinking.

  56. She had examined rather anxiously into her own feelings that night at home, she remembered, because she knew Killigrew's views on marriage as the most unsatisfactory and immoral of states, and she did not wish to suffer.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "immoral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bad; corrupt; criminal; crooked; dark; decadent; devious; dirty; dishonest; dishonorable; dissolute; doubtful; dubious; effete; evasive; evil; fast; felonious; filthy; fishy; foul; fraudulent; immoral; improper; impure; indirect; iniquitous; insidious; libertine; licentious; loose; naughty; obscene; outrageous; perverted; profligate; promiscuous; questionable; reprobate; rotten; scandalous; shady; shameless; shifty; sinful; sinister; slippery; suspicious; terroristic; tricky; ugly; unchaste; unclean; unconscientious; unconscionable; underhanded; unethical; ungodly; unprincipled; unsavory; unscrupulous; vicious; vile; wicked; wrong