moral
adjective
of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical.
morals
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pluralof moral.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Fans have been warned against buying fakes, with police saying, external they can be "manufactured without regard for safety standards or workers' rights" and Trading Standards warning that "counterfeiters have no morals and no standards".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
‘This flies in the face of my morals and ethics’: My father cut my sisters out of his six-figure estate.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
She is a woman with character, morals and years of positive experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
He told voters that he walked away from the firm 14 years ago, leaving an enormous amount of money on the table, because it did not align with his morals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
And I wanted to promise him I wouldn’t lie or steal or associate with persons of loose morals, or covet my neighbor’s wife, or anything.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
