amoral
not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.
having no moral standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong: a completely amoral person.
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Origin of amoral
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Other words from amoral
- a·mor·al·ism, noun
- a·mo·ral·i·ty [ey-muh-ral-i-tee, am-uh-], /ˌeɪ məˈræl ɪ ti, ˌæm ə-/, noun
- a·mor·al·ly, adverb
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How to use amoral in a sentence
The chill truth at the center of this performance is that love of life is utterly, and sometimes destructively, amoral.
Halo Wines, eminence of Washington-area theater, dies at 81 | Emily Langer | June 25, 2021 | Washington PostIt opens in Morocco, swerves to New York and ends up in the cool amoral vacuity familiar to fans of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley novels.
‘Who is Maud Dixon?’ In this inventive thriller, you’ll be turning the pages to find out | Maureen Corrigan | April 2, 2021 | Washington PostIt’s understandable if the creators wanted to avoid imposing too much political significance on the actions of an amoral sadist.
Netflix’s Serial Killer Drama The Serpent Is Nihilistic Murder Porn in Prestige True-Crime Packaging | Judy Berman | March 26, 2021 | TimeThe Russos’ gallows bonhomie could be a conscious or subconscious nod to Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, the rare junkie movie that does work, offsetting heroin-use horrors with the right amount of amoral energy.
In Cherry, a Troubled Veteran Turns to Drugs and Crime. Everyone—Including the Audience—Suffers | Stephanie Zacharek | March 12, 2021 | TimeSuch power must first be accumulated for amoral reasons before it can be used for moral reasons.
George Shultz Showed U.S. Foreign Policy Is Strongest When We Combine Realism and Human Rights | Robert D. Kaplan | February 9, 2021 | Time
Blame the African countries and the amoral people who go into the savannahs and the forests and slaughter the animals.
And if both women are more amoral and avaricious than Ma Joad and Mama Younger, well, so are we.
If I were an ambitious, amoral politician looking for higher office, I'd sign up with the GOP.
I think he's better understood as a scientist who is simply amoral.
‘The Armstrong Lie,’ Alex Gibney’s Portrait of Lance as a Liar | Thomas Flynn | November 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBeastie John Avlon put it well: He's "a deeply moral man who happens to be amoral when it comes to politics."
A hum of understanding and approval ran through the court; the intellect is profoundly amoral.
Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) | Frank HarrisIago has been described as immoral; he does not seem to me to be immoral, but amoral, as the intellect always is.
The Man Shakespeare | Frank HarrisWithout a grounding in praxis, the content and activity of nursing science becomes amoral and meaningless.
Nursing as Caring | Anne BoykinAt one end were the amoral characters whose excesses became steadily worse as the situation blackened.
The Armed Forces Officer | U. S. Department of DefenseIn all these encounters, Krishna shows himself completely amoral, achieving his ends by the very audacity of his means.
The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry | W. G. Archer
British Dictionary definitions for amoral
/ (eɪˈmɒrəl) /
having no moral quality; nonmoral
without moral standards or principles
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Derived forms of amoral
- amorality (ˌeɪmɒˈrælɪtɪ), noun
- amorally, adverb
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