- morals[plural] standards or principles of good behaviour, especially in matters of sexual relationships
- He has absolutely no morals, that man!
- The play was considered an affront to public morals.
- The question is one of manners rather than morals.
- (old-fashioned) a person of loose morals (= with a low standard of sexual behaviour)
Extra Examples- She had tried her best to instil morals into her children.
- Women who went to pubs alone would sometimes be assumed to have loose morals.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- good
- high
- strong
- …
- have
- instil/instill
- teach (somebody)
- …
- a decline in morals
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- [countable] a practical lesson that a story, an event or an experience teaches you
- The moral of the story is always stick to what you do best.
- And the moral is that crime doesn't pay.
Extra Examples- There are clear morals to be drawn from the failure of these companies.
- There is a clear moral to all this.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + moral- draw
- moral to
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin moralis, from mos, mor- ‘custom’, (plural) mores ‘morals’. As a noun the word was first used to translate Latin Moralia, the title of St Gregory the Great's moral exposition of the Book of Job, and was later applied to the works of various classical writers.
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