How to Use immorality in a Sentence

immorality

noun
  • An immorality play where the only tragedy is that its four lissome Robin Hoods get caught?
    Ross Douthat, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Back then, the group banned television, movies and other media on the grounds of immorality.
    Manori Ravindran, Variety, 22 Nov. 2021
  • As punishment for the Atlanteans’ greed and immorality, the gods sent fires and earthquakes to submerge their home.
    Nili Blanck, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Not in the opinion of those who feared that the characters’ immorality would only feed anti-Semitism.
    Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • Yes, Orwell was flawed and committed many immoralities in his life, but that does not take away the genius of his work one iota.
    Amity Shlaes, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Meanwhile, Philip’s mother Myra rants about the immorality of Liam’s mother having shacked up with their lodger.
    Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • Over the years, Belmont Park has served as backdrop to some of the sport's greatest moments as horses strive for a Triple Crown and potential spot in equine immorality.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 11 June 2022
  • This element of the series was often too on the nose, and much less compelling than the random displays of immorality and wickedness that make the Ushers rotten to the core.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
  • For me the fall of Aleppo, which was pretty recent, a few months ago, that to me captured the immorality of Obama’s Syria policy.
    Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 10 Apr. 2017
  • He and his followers were forced to flee Rome under threat of a trial for corruption and immorality.
    National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
  • There were concerns about the behavior of the ancient gods — their immorality and violence.
    Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Yet to admit its immorality would be a damning indictment of her record and deeply unpopular at the CIA.
    The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • That includes not just these soldiers' stories but the immorality of the war, its impact on the Vietnamese people, and the injustices African Americans faced at home, then and now.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 10 June 2020
  • And yet this same party is unable to see the immorality of their economic policy.
    Nish Weiseth, Cosmopolitan, 22 Dec. 2017
  • This is just a combination of too many factors––corruption, immorality, hate speech against women.
    Gina Martinez, Time, 18 July 2019
  • Antoinette is saved from Libs of TikTok immorality by Vignal’s love of movies.
    Armond White, National Review, 27 July 2022
  • The sequel to this story might entice Ethan to rejoin his brother Joel on a murky Coen brothers immorality tale.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
  • In 1731, a woman in Nottingham was strapped into a ducking stool for immorality.
    Katie Dancey-Downs, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022
  • The sight of McCain lashing out against his own people and using his own scars as personal witness of the immorality of the abuse of prisoners was chilling, moving and historic.
    Christine Flowers, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 July 2017
  • At the end of the decade, Franco, Simaro, and other band members were imprisoned, ostensibly for immorality.
    Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 26 June 2019
  • Start teaching and mentoring youth about concern for others in the school system, teach the basic laws of immorality and wrongful behaviors.
    Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
  • While many American readers couldn’t see past the flashy clothes and immorality, the book’s revelations about the business of pimping have had wider implications.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Even today, nearly all states have laws that permit the dismissal of a teacher for immorality, immoral character or moral turpitude.
    Kyle Greenwalt, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Today, Hollywood is great at voicing umbrage over Trump’s immorality, but last night’s (bleep)show proved there’s no business like show business.
    Will Bunch, Philly.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Honor killing allows a husband or a close relative who suspects a wife or sister or daughter of immorality to kill her without trial.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2022
  • Never mind the staggering immorality of the Jones decision in the full context of America's justice system.
    Elliot Williams, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021
  • In a nation where laws permit any citizen to file lawsuits against anyone perceived of immorality or tarnishing the country’s image, the 69-year-old lawyer is the profession’s doyen.
    Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Or maybe immorality tale better describes these goings on.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • For a nation of immigrants, the fear and prejudice behind Trump's folly reveal his immorality.
    Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Their immorality is not a reflection of their individual failings but a reflection of the infectious petri dish that nurtures their growth.
    Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023

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