unmoral

adjective

Definition of unmoralnext
as in unethical

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmoral
  1. unethical
  2. unprincipled
  3. unscrupulous
  4. dishonest
  5. cutthroat
  6. corrupt
  7. crooked
  8. depraved
Adjective
  • Some industry insiders said a singer calling in his small label’s numbers was highly unethical.
    Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Our participation in irrelevant Beauty content from people who look like us that overshadows relevant liberation work from people who also look like us is unethical.
    Akilah Sailers, Essence, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of unethical
Adjective
  • Objective voters who watched the recent documentary about Lev Parnas, once a Trump ally, should fear a redux of a Cabinet running the government for an angry, unhinged, unprincipled man.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2024
  • All of this coincided with a period of unprincipled practices in the media.
    Meg Walters, Glamour, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of unprincipled
Adjective
  • Labor advocates, meanwhile, worry about the opposite happening: Enforcement against unscrupulous employers will fall by the wayside.
    Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Remember Daraprim, a generic medicine whose price rose overnight from $13.50 per tablet to $750 because of an unscrupulous Wall Street investor.
    Arthur E Palamara, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of unscrupulous
Adjective
  • Start Glorifying Honest And Authentic Marketing Why do some marketers create dishonest marketing campaigns that tap into impulsive emotions?
    Drew Gerber, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The settlement sparked a backlash from both sides of the political aisle, with one half framing it as a dishonest entity being justly punished and the other accusing the news outlet of kowtowing to Trump.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of dishonest
Adjective
  • The Major League Baseball Players’ Association petitioned a New York trial court last week to confirm an arbitration award against Rimas Sports executives in a move that draws attention to the competitive, if not cutthroat, world of player agents.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Contributor The investment world can be very cutthroat, and numerous businesses are competing to receive valuable capital investments that will allow the founders to grow their companies or make their exit.
    Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024
Definition of cutthroat
Adjective
  • Years after witnessing the brutal death of his mother at the hands of Rana Singh (Sikandar Kher), a corrupt cop, Kid (Patel), opts to lean into the eye-for-an-eye approach.
    Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2024
  • There’s a corrupt teacher who, while not quite as downright evil as the serial killer that was Mark Jefferson in the first game, has done some pretty bad things in the pursuit of recognition.
    Ryan Easby, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of corrupt
Adjective
  • The official seizure seals hung crooked across the front gate, half-unstuck.
    Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
  • From background to foreground, the painting depicts a haloed Virgin Mary, a young Jesus standing between her knees, St. Jerome asleep on the ground, and St. John the Baptist, clad sparsely in animal skins, pointing a crooked finger toward the figures behind him.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of crooked
Adjective
  • But this act also gave people permission to go far enough—to acknowledge their righteous hatred of our depraved health-care system, and even to conjure something funny or silly or joyous out of that hate.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • So many iconic movies were made during this time, about this time, that its version of the city as dangerous, depraved, and degraded lingered for decades.
    David LaChapelle, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of depraved
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