How to Use amoral in a Sentence

amoral

adjective

• The wealthy of Palm Beach are money-grubbing and amoral.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2020
• The final minutes skipped ahead to Saul (Bob Odenkirk) in full, bleak, amoral glory.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 26 July 2022
• There's also a cat named The Cat, voiced by Kate Mulgrew with amoral relish.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2021
• Their amoral elitism is the only part of neo-Gossip Girl that feels like Gossip Girl.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 5 July 2021
• Dark, gritty, amoral superheroes have been the norm for decades.
  — John Brownlee, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2006
• His amoral drive is also what pushes him to want to stage a parody.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 9 Sep. 2021
• Starkly amoral, with not a whisper of redemption, the novel contains the seeds of much the author would go on to write.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• The bodies are thus the moral universe in which the amoral Don Giovanni operates.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2017
• Children who kill are not, with very few exceptions, amoral.
  — Rob Verger, Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2014
• There is nothing wrong or amoral about the Cowboys collecting wins against Wilson and Dobbs these next two weeks.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Just how amoral are Americans these days with so much at stake as never before?
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 May 2024
• The show is less gleefully amoral, in some ways; at least our John and Jane don’t have to kill people for every assignment.
  — Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
• George Smiley, a tormented Englishman with an anguished heart and a will of iron, is the moral center of this amoral world.
  — Mary Ann Gwinn / Lit Life Columnist, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• Yet beyond the horror, the true insight is that intense curiosity about the world is amoral.
  — Jeff Vandermeer, The Atlantic, 9 May 2017
• That all of this is amoral on its face should be clear to anyone who values a functional democracy.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• Trainspotting, the rare junkie movie that does work, offsetting heroin-use horrors with the right amount of amoral energy.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Mar. 2021
• Sarsgaard is every bit his equal as the robotic, amoral CIA analyst.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
• Good riddance to the fake redneck, the cancer-charity grifter, and the amoral Florida Woman.
  — Elizabeth Spiers, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2021
• So too did Greenfield, as an amoral best man who’s suspiciously good at cleaning up crime scenes.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
• By this time, the reader cannot help but admire Dirk, who is cut from the same cloth as those heroically amoral overreachers in Jacobean tragedy.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 June 2019
• Who cared about a show focusing on rich people who were selfish, greedy, amoral, and power-hungry?
  — oregonlive, 13 Oct. 2021
• The film, a remake of Woo's original, follows an assassin with a code who can no longer abide by his amoral employer's rules any longer and seeks to leave the life.
  — Sydney Scott, Essence.com, 1 May 2018
• Skipper can be as crafty and cunning as the best of them, but lying like that has an amoral dimension to it that is certainly not Skipperesque.
  — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 11 Jan. 2018
• Ethics, however, for Rich, stood at a remove from amoral sonic pleasure.
  — Wayne Koestenbaum, New York Times, 15 July 2016
• In other words, ESPN claims to be amoral on questions of gender equality.
  — Michael Serazio, Quartz, 21 June 2019
• But the Gulf rulers have also evinced a hard-headed, Machiavellian empiricism that is amoral rather than immoral.
  — Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
• His hunger for dirt on Hunter Biden sounds like familiar, amoral, gutter politics.
  — Nancy Gibbs, Time, 1 Oct. 2019
• That act had an interesting type of moral thinking behind it, an amoral, strange sort of thinking behind it.
  — Isaac Feldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Facebook’s news feed, or Google’s search ranking for that matter, is coldly aloof and amoral, and merely shows us what its creators think will keep us engaged.
  — Susan Crawford, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2018
• Trump, an amoral bully, understands this base instinct well.
  — Editorial Board, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024