How to Use morality in a Sentence

morality

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  • The group is calling for a return to traditional morality.
  • The decision may be legally justified, but I question its morality.
  • But the ending of his morality tale has yet to be written.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Iran has been gripped by protests since the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after she was detained by the government’s morality police.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The country has been gripped by protests since the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after she was detained by the government’s morality police.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • His condemnations have more to do with politics than piety or any sense of morality.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The ethnic Kurd perished at the hands of Iran’s morality police while on a visit to Tehran last September, sparking the biggest nationwide protests in over a decade.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The director described the final chapter of the trilogy as darker, with McCall having to dig deep into his soul to stay on the right side of morality.
    — Arturo Conde, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • One of the common threads among those responses was a lack of willingness to compromise on issues that were seen as questions of morality.
    — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Despite the threat of violence from the very-much-still-intact morality police, women still protest by letting their hair flow, even in the most religious parts of Iran, like Qom.
    — Sara Li, ELLE, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Women and young people have been at the forefront of the protest movement since its start in September, after the death of a 22-year-old, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of the country’s morality police.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The fight isn’t only about money, but family legacy and a conflict between law and morality.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Feuchtwanger intended his book to be a morality tale, a work of proselytizing by the brother who left.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2022

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