immoral

Preposition: about

eugenics: BMJ 319, 1283 Caplan, A.L. , McGee, G. and Magnus, D. ( 1999 ) What is immoral about eugenics?

Adjective complement with noun phrase

do: And if you are doing something immoral, Jesus will call you away from that.

Modifies a noun

• behavior: The desire for a wife can lead to immoral behavior.
• earning: Sir Judas Moffatt also has a farm, so he may have immoral steel earnings topped up too.
• invasion: It is also illegitimate because it comes as the result of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq.
• act: He should not verbally abuse others, nor should commit immoral acts.
• behavior: He also thought that they may be tempted to emulate some of the immoral behavior in such texts.
• conduct: With the free market, it is believed, comes immoral personal conduct.

Modifying Another Word

• intrinsically: Some people insist that their mere existence is intrinsically immoral.
• grossly: Archeological finds confirm that these nations were grossly immoral and wicked.
• fundamentally: There's no sense in morality, I suppose, unless you are fundamentally immoral.
• deeply: Either America will persist in, strengthen even, the deeply immoral attitude of " Why should this happen to us?
• totally: Well, for a start, many Kingston people believe debt slavery is totally immoral.

Infinitive complement

• use: It was immoral to use war for political gain.
• threaten: We are convinced, however, that if it is immoral to use these weapons it is also immoral to threaten their use.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: The things that he had previously been involved in now seemed immoral.
• consider: The dance was soon considered immoral with its flirting music!
• become: Even to dream of a national home would then become immoral.