immoral

adjective

Breaching principles of natural law, rectitude, or justice, and so inconsistent with the demands of virtue, purity, or "good morals"; not right, not moral. (Compare unethical, illegal.)

Roots

inim- · Latin · not mos-mor · Latin · custom, manner

Synonyms for immoral

unmoral amoraladj unethicaladj depravedadj iniquitousadj sinfuladj indecentadj unchasteadj dishonorableadj obsceneadj dishonestadj unconscionableadj licentiousadj unprincipledadj vileadj

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