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morality

[muh-ral-i-tee, maw-] / məˈræl ɪ ti, mɔ- /


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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

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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