amoral
Example Sentences
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It is human nature to project our phobias, prejudices and obsessions onto what is simply a biological contest between our immune system and the amoral pathogens trying to replicate themselves within us.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
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.:
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
In “Barking Dogs Never Bite,” he probes what viewers see as ethical food versus amoral, offensive cuisine.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025
He invited controversy, however, not by advocating a more amoral, realpolitik foreign policy but by delivering a finger-wagging, highly moralistic lecture about, among other things, how our allies are insufficiently liberal about free expression.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025
“I almost didn’t say anything. I thought, what’s in the past is past. Maybe she’s made a new life. But I see you’ve raised your daughter to be just as amoral as you.”
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
