Moral victory goes to the illicit dancer, the tale's true victim.
After that moral victory, we shall get on to the next business.
I had the moral victory and the other fellow had the votes.
We get the moral victory of having said that the landlord has no right to compensation, and the landlord gets £300 million.
But because we stood firm a great moral victory was achieved.
But then we only claim a moral victory.
Arrests were made, and a prosecution followed, but the offenders were only bound over to keep the peace for a period, and promptly claimed it as a moral victory.
A team that plays fairly and loses to a cheating team might also claim a moral victory in spite of the loss.
