moral ambiguity

noun

: a lack of certainty about whether something is right or wrong

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Anthony Russo touched on this moral ambiguity during our conversation. —Tony Bradley, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025

All these years later, that performance's moral ambiguity is a feature, not a bug, and there's a thrill to watching Hackman deftly navigate the character's warring impulses. —Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025

With that simple change, Wilson casts Odysseus as a man whose character is tailored for a world of moral ambiguity and political uncertainty. —Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2019

Darkly comedic and delightfully cynical, the series is a wild ride through moral ambiguity and entrepreneurial scheming. —Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024

First, there is often too much moral ambiguity in such episodes for a response that treats every participant as obviously in the wrong. —Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024

Mostly, though, the moral ambiguity is part of the wicked thrill. —Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024

This nonfiction detour evinces many qualities familiar from his dramatic features, among them the atmospheric, quasi-dream state; the long takes, usually from a fixed angle; the repetitions; the contemplative silences; the embrace of moral ambiguity. —David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2024

Come for the menacing setting and twisted plot; stay for the moral ambiguity and the corrosive effects of guilt. —The Week Us, theweek, 24 Sep. 2024

Rhymes for moral ambiguity

• discontinuity
• acuity
• annuity
• circuity
• congruity
• fatuity
• gratuity
• tenuity
• vacuity
• contiguity
• continuity
• incongruity