immoral

immoral
I adjective amoral, arrant, bad, base, conscienceless, corrupt, criminal, debauched, degenerate, depraved, dishonest, dishonorable, disreputable, dissipated, dissolute, evil, exploitative, false, flagitious, graceless, heinous, ignoble, illaudable, illegal, illicit, improper, impure, indecent, iniquitous, knavish, lacking morals, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, male moratus, miscreant, nefarious, objectionable, perditus, pernicious, perverted, pettifogging, pravus, profligate, promiscuous, prurient, reprobate, roguish, salacious, shameless, shocking, sinful, unchaste, unconscionable, unethical, unjustifiable, unlawful, unmoral, unprincipled, unrighteous, unscrupulous, unvirtuous, unwholesome, wicked, without integrity, wrong associated concepts: immoral act, immoral agreement, immoral conduct, immoral consideration, immoral contract, obscenity foreign phrases:
- Ex turpi causa non oritur actio. — No cause of action arises out of an immoral or illegal consideration.
II index bad (offensive), base (bad), brazen, decadent, delinquent (guilty of a misdeed), depraved, diabolic, dishonest, disreputable, dissolute, felonious, illicit, improper, inexcusable, iniquitous, irregular (improper), lascivious, lawless, lecherous, lewd, licentious, machiavellian, nefarious, obscene, peccant (culpable), profligate (corrupt), promiscuous, reprehensible, reprobate, salacious, scandalous, sinister, tainted (corrupted), tortuous (corrupt), unethical, unjust, unscrupulous, vicious, wanton

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


immoral
adj.
Against accepted moral standards; dissolute.
n.
immorality

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.

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