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
My moral duty as Secretary-General of the United Nations is to do everything possible to avoid war.
My grandmother, as usual, lamented the decline in moral standards in today's society.
He has very strong moral convictions.
Only where both coincide can business be expected to act out of moral concerns for past sins or the future public good.
For similar reasons, we examine attitudes towards gender roles and moral issues.
In addition to prescribing forms of work to the patient, each of the three models assigns the physician a moral function alongside his technical function.
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