good morals
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The civil code would also allow judges to base some rulings on vaguely defined "good morals" -- a provision Human Rights Watch warned would be "opening the door to arbitrary interpretation".
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
"My dad gave us good standards, good morals, and hopefully we can make him proud," he adds.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2024
According to the medical model and the moral model it evolved from, people who are sick or disabled are abnormal and "bad", lacking both good health and, presumably, good morals.
From Salon • May 14, 2023
The leaders of the English church and government agreed that men and women should have good morals, but viewed their Puritan critics as potential subversives.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
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Clement then after Peter's passion thrived in fairness of good morals, so that he was acceptable to Jews, and heathens, and christians together.
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham