morality
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About 20 aid workers were arrested in June near the Iran border in Herat province by Afghanistan's morality police, because their beards were not long enough.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
On every football metric - and, some would say, morality too - this was the right result.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Given our own tinderbox of a world—in the face of the Somme, in the face of millions killed—the highest morality has nothing to do with domestic scandals and everything to do with preventing great-power war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
But there are unusual rewards for an intrepid company willing to test the boundaries of political and artistic morality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
I stayed wholly off the subject of morality.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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More to the point, Hardy and Easton wrote, “pleasure is a complete and worthwhile goal” that needs neither validation nor antiquated moralities.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
But dig a little deeper and the play reveals a society in transition — new moralities wrestling with moribund conventions that refuse to die.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
Migrants from southern Italy brought their own moralities and dialects, which Pasolini documented with ethnographic exactitude.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2013
They are not motivated by simple human moralities, by universalized appeals to the superego such as “good cat” or “bad cat,” by guilt culture or shame culture.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2012
Having grown separately for millennia, the Americas were a boundless sea of novel ideas, dreams, stories, philosophies, religions, moralities, discoveries, and all the other products of the mind.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Vocabulary lists containing morality
Lyndon B. Johnson on "The Great Society" (1964)
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"American History" by Judith Ortiz Cofer
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