Immoralize

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To corrupt; to make immoral..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To corrupt; to make immoral.
2. (transitive) To decry as immoral.
3. (intransitive) To behave immorally or promote immorality.

Example Sentences

But if this charge be true, then it can be no less true that the Messiah has failed, that the Christian religion is not of divine origin, since its effect and operation has been to deprave and immoralize mankind.

At early common law, gaming was not unlawful so long as it did not tend to immoralize the innocent or affect the interests of those not similarly engaged.

Did Ugo immoralize the Javanese shadow-puppets by making them his? Did he deprive them of philosophy? Merely by telling them to don bikinis and to masturbate?

His conventional Jayhawker morality causes him to immoralize thus regarding the alleged moral breakdown in Europe: “One could imagine that if God thinks war is necessary for the solution of the world's terrible problems, He will have no trouble forgiving these lapses that follow in the wake of war in France. […]

The preachers decry it; the moralists immoralize it, the critics criticize it as poor entertainment, and the dear public, mind already warped and jared by too much entertainment, looks for a thrill elsewhere.

Some writers just moralize better than others immoralize.

For when I am in a moral frame of mind I moralize and when I am in an immoral state I immoralize!

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Word Forms

• immoralizes
• immoralizing
• immoralized
• immoralise

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