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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having no moral quality; amoral.
  • adjective Unrelated to moral or ethical considerations; nonmoral.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not moral; non-moral; not a subject of moral attributes; neither moral nor immoral.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having no moral perception, quality, or relation; involving no idea of morality; -- distinguished from both moral and immoral.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective rare Not applicable for moral consideration.
  • adjective rare Not moral.

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Examples

  • The average Parisienne of the street is not immoral; she is unmoral, that is to say she has no morals because she never did have any.

    On the Fringe of the Great Fight 1921

  • Then the whole spawn of so-called unmoral romances, which imagine a world where the sins of sense are unvisited by the penalties following, swift or slow, but inexorably sure, in the real world, are deadly poison: these do kill.

    Criticism and Fiction William Dean Howells 1878

  • Then the whole spawn of so-called unmoral romances, which imagine a world where the sins of sense are unvisited by the penalties following, swift or slow, but inexorably sure, in the real world, are deadly poison: these do kill.

    Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

  • This girl of twenty had developed into a supreme instance of the "unmoral" woman, the conscienceless egoist, morally colour-blind, vain, lewd, the intelligence quick and alert but having no influence whatever on conduct.

    A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

  • My favorite was the sweet faced Alice of the 'unmoral' pair. (click on image to enlarge)

    Fashion World of SL Anessa Stine 2008

  • Like the hosts of more learned thinkers before her, she concluded that the universe was unmoral and without concern for men.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • Clear-eyed, from her childhood days with the saloonkeeper Cady and Cady's good-natured but unmoral spouse, she had observed, and, later, generalized much upon sex.

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • Was, then, woman the utterly unmoral creature as depicted by the

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • I was twenty, and she a mad, wanton creature, wonderful and unmoral and filled with life to the brim.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • She would not mind that the universe was unmoral, that there was no God, no immortality.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

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