How to Use morality in a Sentence

morality

noun
  • The group is calling for a return to traditional morality.
  • The decision may be legally justified, but I question its morality.
  • These works are not morality plays, don’t have a moral at the end.
    New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022
  • But the ending of his morality tale has yet to be written.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2022
  • For Costner, that morality seems to boil down to a kind of broad populism.
    Aja Romano, Vox, 29 June 2024
  • My guiding mantra was that this is a fairytale; this is not a morality tale.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The weight of morality shouldn’t be on the shoulders of comedians.
    Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Gorsich is not the morality police in any of this, anyway.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • What happens next is a question of both morality and math.
    Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Josiah didn’t think too much about the morality of his creation.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Maybe some of them see a chance to rise through a hierarchy, despite the murky morality of the drug business.
    Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • That makes a difference, even on the scale of morality where both things may be horrible.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
  • This places focus on the things of morality more so than the things of basic humanity.
    Charlotte Observer, 8 Feb. 2024
  • At the same time, Cloudflare finds itself firmly on the right side of the morality argument.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The tragic death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran's morality police.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Is the law equipped to handle morality, especially in the face of power?
    Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Everyone makes their own choices and morality is black and white — there is no gray.
    Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • These reflect the aftermath of the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s morality police.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • During the Trump era, the Watergate saga has once again been held up as a national morality tale.
    Time, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The terror televised, the host and his fiendish following shed light on the limits of human morality.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 24 July 2024
  • There was no empathy, morality, or grace in the response.
    Vogue, 8 Nov. 2022
  • So Machiavelli said that the prince cannot afford the pleasures of normal morality.
    CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But having to zoom out and look at justice and morality in a different lens, rather than the classic rulebook.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 19 July 2024
  • She had been detained by the country's morality police and later died.
    Jon Gambrell, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Iranians wrote about the uprisings in that country in the wake of the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police.
    Lily Moayeri, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2023
  • On the streets of the capital, women are able to shop with only their heads covered and there is no sign of armed Taliban morality enforcers.
    Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The regime has also brought back its morality police after witnesses said the force had briefly disappeared from the streets during the protests.
    Teele Rebane, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Demonstrations in Iran have swept the country after a young woman died last month while in the custody of the nation’s morality police.
    Grace Tooheystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • September 16 will mark one year since the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police.
    Lily Moayeri, Spin, 8 Sep. 2023
  • When a young woman named Mahsa Amini died at the hands of the morality police in September 2022, after being arrested for not wearing her hijab properly, Iran was racked with protests.
    Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 29 July 2024

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