amoral
Example Sentences
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If Pericles’ funeral oration is a landmark of democratic virtue, the amoral facts of pure force become explicit in the “Melian dialogue” following the Athenian conquest of the neutral island of Melos in 415 B.C.:
Politicians in Washington are certainly amoral, but their hands are not merely unclean with dirt, but also incarnadined and besmirched with innocent blood.
From Washington Post
In Campanella’s view, “There’s only one thing Ricardo cannot be, and that is unlikable. The clearest proof is ‘Nine Queens,’ where he plays an amoral crook, but we still root for him.”
From New York Times
ChatGPT’s output is theoretically constrained by ethical “guardrails” devised by its developers, but easily evaded — “nothing more than lipstick on an amoral pig,” Marcus has observed.
From Los Angeles Times
These are two of several dramas based on true stories of corporate implosions wrought by a**holery – a brand of ripped-from-the-headlines drama that plugs into America's obsession with wealthy, amoral people.
From Salon
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