IMMORAL in a Sentence

Learn IMMORAL from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For IMMORAL, below is one of 30 sentences:
I am running away from my husband, after liking a Swedish ne'er-do-well and expressing immoral opinions, just as in a romantic story.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMMORAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
immoral
 a.  not moral; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  Alter all, there wasn't anything immoral in marrying a man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  Ashley would never suspect that she would even think of doing anything so immoral.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  I am running away from my husband, after liking a Swedish ne'er-do-well and expressing immoral opinions, just as in a romantic story.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  "Every place is immoral," he said.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
6  Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In FIRST ACT
7  "The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty," said Lord Henry, lighting a cigarette.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
8  The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
9  I wish only to tell you that aristocracy is a principle, and in our days none but immoral or silly people can live without principles.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: I
11  He liked to dine and drink well, and though he considered it immoral and humiliating could not resist the temptations of the bachelor circles in which he moved.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
12  They were never vulgar, never immoral, but rather rough and primitive, with an unconventionality that spent itself in loud guffaws, slaps on the back, and naps in the corner.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
13  Drinking, gambling, quarrels, fights, and shockingly immoral practices were frequent.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
14  Dear mama, there, as soon as she got an inkling of the business, found out that it was of an immoral tendency.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  If I were an immoral woman I could have made her husband fall in love with me.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 29
Example Sentence:
1  He condemned the government's action as immoral.
2  Capital punishment was regarded as inhuman and immoral.
3  It is my belief that nuclear weapons are immoral.
4  Deliberately making people suffer is immoral.
5  Some people still think it is immoral to have sex before marriage.
6  Using these missiles to down civilian aircraft is simply immoral and totally unjustifiable.
7  If you refuse to save your country, your morality is mischievous, that is, immoral.
8  In this country, religious leaders have repeatedly lashed out against movies, music, and television shows which they call immoral and worthless.
9  Unscrupulously seducing the daughter of his host, Don Juan felt no qualms about the immorality of his licentious behavior.
10  Compared with evil immorality, being amoral is more like being naughty.