adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
morally bankrupt
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The opposition attacked the government as morally bankrupt .
morally inferior
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Non-believers were considered morally inferior by people who adopted the new religion.
morally reprehensible
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I find their behaviour morally reprehensible .
morally repugnant
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Animal experiments are morally repugnant to many people.
morally superior
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They also accuse Christians of pretending to be morally superior.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acceptable
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If reparation were more consistently pursued we should have a much more civilized and morally acceptable penal system than the present one.
bankrupt
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The conservative critique along such lines argues that liberalism is morally bankrupt .
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But the annexation of the other planets of the Althosian system had left Nicaea economically and morally bankrupt .
indefensible
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Such a degree of hypocrisy can not be tolerated; it is morally indefensible , and in defiance of the rule of law.
neutral
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He makes it clear that pursuing money is distasteful but having money is morally neutral .
reprehensible
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Sweetman splits his subject in half into Gauguin, a morally reprehensible man, and Gauguin, a heroic artist.
right
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Authority represents a two-way process: a claim to be obeyed, and a recognition that this claim is morally right .
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None of which makes it morally right for us to kill him.
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It needs to convince us that cars are causing global warming and that it's morally right to bleed motorists dry.
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You might be morally right , but it is better to be pragmatic.
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Is it morally right to sentence a young person to a period in custody?
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We are clearly never obliged to follow any human direction contrary to what we know to be scriptural or morally right .
superior
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I am so pleased that we have solved the dilemma and we can feel morally superior !
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Jealous, resentful, morally superior , I stayed on with the rest of the proletariat.
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Verse is here the morally superior medium, but at least Boult redeems prose from its worst associations.
wrong
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Such testimony was not necessarily regarded as morally wrong .
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It would be morally wrong to do otherwise.
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Why is insider dealing morally wrong ?
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On the other hand, the child who has some expectation that Lying will go unpunished sees nothing morally wrong with lying.
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The assertion that some particular type of conduct is morally wrong because it is may appear unsatisfactory but it is unchallengeable.
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It follows that it is wrong to convict and punish some one who has done nothing morally wrong.
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It is on this basis that many see insider dealing as morally wrong .
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I have a nagging sense of being unsatisfied with my behaviour, as though I was doing something morally wrong .
■ VERB
feel
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I am so pleased that we have solved the dilemma and we can feel morally superior!
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Then they may feel morally devalued and a new standard of behavior can take root: the good of the service.
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One may affirm the fundamental principle of non-violence and yet feel morally bound to kill the madman given the circumstances.
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Gao Yang glared at the would-be murderer feeling morally superior to some one for the first time in his life.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was morally opposed to the war.
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It is morally wrong to punish someone for something they did not do.
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It is often difficult to behave morally .
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My belief that abortion is morally wrong is not based on religion.
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The government is morally obliged to do all it can for the refugees.
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We are morally opposed to capital punishment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both acts are morally wrong - Edward should not have abused his divine right and curried favour by dishing out peerages.
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Gao Yang glared at the would-be murderer feeling morally superior to some one for the first time in his life.
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Had you said I was morally at fault because I was involved with some one, that would have been another story.
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His stark little ploy may succeed in appealing to the sartorially challenged, but the morally ambiguous generation behind him?
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Identification with one's community is, though not morally obligatory, a desirable state, at least if that community is reasonably just.
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The conservative critique along such lines argues that liberalism is morally bankrupt.
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This Society aimed to popularise sanitary knowledge and thus to elevate the people physically, socially, morally and spiritually.