How to Use morality in a Sentence

morality

noun
  • The group is calling for a return to traditional morality.
  • The decision may be legally justified, but I question its morality.
  • And still, the morality of the Metaverse project is the least of its problems.
    Gian M. Volpicelli, Wired, 31 Jan. 2022
  • These works are not morality plays, don’t have a moral at the end.
    New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022
  • On the balance scale of Cold War morality, the sand didn’t count for much.
    Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
  • Her riposte is to question the morality of the law and the king who issued it.
    Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
  • And there's no doubt there's a, a morality aspect to this.
    NBC News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • But the ending of his morality tale has yet to be written.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2022
  • This is how a Breillat film works: The images are stark, the morality murky.
    Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • For Costner, that morality seems to boil down to a kind of broad populism.
    Aja Romano, Vox, 29 June 2024
  • It was framed as an issue of morality, right, which is the most troubling thing.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • My guiding mantra was that this is a fairytale; this is not a morality tale.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But Cuomo's rapid fall from grace is a morality tale for our times.
    W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Jones made his own rules, based on his own sense of morality, Hudgens said.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Does this force her to look more closely at herself and her own sense of morality?
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The weight of morality shouldn’t be on the shoulders of comedians.
    Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2024
  • There is the argument from morality: The gods will punish you for these bad deeds.
    Shadi Bartsch, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
  • In other words, this is no longer just a question of morality.
    Mark Funkhouser, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Gorsich is not the morality police in any of this, anyway.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • What happens next is a question of both morality and math.
    Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Josiah didn’t think too much about the morality of his creation.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Maybe some of them see a chance to rise through a hierarchy, despite the murky morality of the drug business.
    Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Like most things in life, the morality of witchcraft is not so binary.
    Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The mob that trails West Elm Caleb knows neither morality nor mercy.
    Kelsey McKinney, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Those who see this morality in this country too much are the poor people who have no self-respect.
    Hande Atay Alam and Isil Sariyuce, CNN, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The morality of taboo turns out to be distinct in all sorts of ways from the morality of harm to people and property.
    Paul Bloom, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Truth in art can only be found outside the confines of morality.
    Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • So the larger conversation around who gets to write, the morality of writing, all of that?
    Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
  • That makes a difference, even on the scale of morality where both things may be horrible.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Both Ford and Mirren warn that Whitfield’s endless means and lack of morality will continue to bring a different kind of beast to the Duttons’ doorstep.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 23 Feb. 2025

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