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0 relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than to laws:
It's her moral obligation to tell the police what she knows.
It is not part of a novelist's job to make a moral judgment.
She was the only politician to condemn the proposed law on moral grounds (= for moral reasons).
The Democrats are attempting to capture the moral high ground (= are trying to appear more honest and good than the other political parties).
She's a very moral woman.
Oh, stop being so moral!
Is TV responsible for weakening people's moral fibre (= ability to behave well and honestly and work hard)?
1 standards for good or bad character and behaviour:
old-fashioned disapproving a person of loose morals (= whose character or sexual behaviour is considered unacceptable)
2 The moral of a story, event, or experience is the message that you understand from it about how you should or should not behave:
3 relating to standards of good behavior, honesty, and fair dealing, or showing high standards of this type:
a highly moral man
It’s her moral obligation to tell the police what she knows.
4 a message about how people should or should not behave, contained in a story, event, or experience:
5 a lesson that can be learned from a story, esp. a fable or other work of literature