Meaning & use
immoral
Not conforming to accepted standards of right and wrong behavior; morally wrong.
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The employees considered it immoral to cover up the company's safety violations.
Critics called the experiment immoral because it exposed subjects to needless harm.
A note on using this word
Immoral judges an act as wrong; 'amoral' instead describes a lack of any moral sense or concern at all.
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