Phrase Hound found 81 phrases and 28 compound words that contain moral. The most common are listed below. Open moral in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 81
- moral hazardThe prospect that a party insulated from risk may behave differently from the way it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk.
- moral supportAssistance given to a person or cause, that is psychological rather than physical.
- moral authorityOf a person, institution, or written work, the quality or characteristic of being respected for having good character or knowledge, especially as a source of guidance or an exemplar of proper conduct.
- moral codeA written, formal, and consistent set of rules prescribing righteous behavior, accepted by a person or by a group of people.
- moral obligationA duty which one owes and ought to perform on the basis of considerations of right and wrong, but which he is not legally bound to fulfill, as a duty to be charitable, a duty to pay a debt barred by the act of limitations, etc.
- Moral values
- Moral character
- moral panicA semi-spontaneous or media-generated mass movement based on the perception that an individual, group, community, or culture is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society; a public outcry.
- Moral issues
- moral philosophyEthics.
- moral policeVigilantes or groups that try to enforce their moral laws on others.
- moral compassAn inner sense that distinguishes right from wrong, functioning as a guide for morally appropriate behavior.
- moral injuryHarm to an individual's moral conscience and values, resulting from an act of perceived moral transgression on the part of themselves or others, and accompanied by guilt, shame, anger, etc.
- Moral MajorityA faction of the US Republican Party whose policies include conservatism on social and personal matters, infusing religion into the American political process.
- moral high groundA position or point of view which is ethically superior or more reputable, in comparison to others which are under consideration.
- moral of the storyThe key lesson or message that an incident, situation or other happening conveys; a general takeaway point.
- moral imperativeA practice, policy, or state of affairs which is required and justified by the fact that it is morally right.
- moral circleThe range of beings considered by an individual or culture to merit moral consideration.
- moral scienceThe systematic, scientific study of human nature and relationships.
- moral systemA consistent set of moral axioms or principles.
- moral objectivismThe position that certain acts are objectively right or wrong, independent of human opinion.
- moral turpitudedepravity
- moral agencyThe ability to make moral choices based on one's internal sense of morality.
- moral agentA being who is capable of exercising moral agency.
- moral bankruptcyThe state or condition of being morally bankrupt; unethicality.
Compound words 28
- moralityRecognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good …
- morallyIn terms of morals or ethics.
- moralizeTo make moral reflections (on, upon, about or over something); to regard acts and events as involving a moral.
- morallerA moralizer.
- antimoralOpposing or countering moral behaviour.
- moralizationThe act of moralizing.
- hypermoralExtremely or excessively moral.
- moraliseNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of moralize.
- ethicomoralRelating to ethics and morality.
- extramoralOutside of morality.