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- adverb In an
amoral manner; withoutmorals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without regard for morality
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Examples
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Nonetheless, the mind can fall under the spell of this amoralism, and when one does, it is not the case that one begins to act amorally, which is impossible for moral creatures; rather,one loses touch with the moral law and begins to act in a disordered fashion.
Crucified Between Two Thieves:Catholic Social Thinking vs. Right and Left Richard Aleman 2007
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Nonetheless, the mind can fall under the spell of this amoralism, and when one does, it is not the case that one begins to act amorally, which is impossible for moral creatures; rather,one loses touch with the moral law and begins to act in a disordered fashion.
Crucified Between Two Thieves:Catholic Social Thinking vs. Right and Left 2007
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Nonetheless, the mind can fall under the spell of this amoralism, and when one does, it is not the case that one begins to act amorally, which is impossible for moral creatures; rather,one loses touch with the moral law and begins to act in a disordered fashion.
Archive 2007-08-01 John M 2007
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And most non-fighting rich merchants were amorally willing to help whoever they thought would win most cheaply, sucking up to those kings in return for royal patronage.
What is selfishness?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how it's fruitless to expect corporations to be moral – they are dumbly, amorally acquisitive.
Heard the one about the top banker who said sorry? No, me neither 2010
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Politically (and therefore amorally) speaking, hell yes!
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Reagan made his contempt for CEDAW perfectly clear when he said that once adopted, the treaty would lead to "sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts treat them."
Marjorie Cohn: Obama: Ratify the Women's Convention Soon 2009
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And in Pakistan it has been made clear many times that the US has no more regard for innocent civilian life than it does in the other two hopeless countries, made so in the name of citizens who are as amorally indifferent as their leadership.
Going, Going... 2009
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Let me see how it feels to speculate amorally about politics for a moment.
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Driving home each day, I tune in to Sean Hannity, a man who dishonors his 5th grade English teacher by intentionally and amorally omitting readily available counterbalance to his arguments on the most important national issues.
Hannity and Limbaugh: The Sinful Downfall of Broadcasting in the USA 2009
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