moral

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noun

1 practical lesson

VERB + MORAL

▪ draw

▪

There are clear morals to be drawn from the failure of these companies.

PREPOSITION

▪ moral to

▪

There is a moral to the story.

2 morals principles

ADJECTIVE

▪ good, high, strong

▪ loose, low

▪ sexual

▪ public

▪ personal

▪ Christian

VERB + MORALS

▪ have

▪

He has absolutely no morals, that man!

▪ instil/instill

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She was gradually instilling morals into her children.

▪ teach (sb)

▪ corrupt

PHRASES

▪ a decline in morals

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adj.

Moral is used with these nouns: ↑accountability, ↑agent, ↑ambiguity, ↑ambivalence, ↑anarchy, ↑argument, ↑aspect, ↑attitude, ↑authority, ↑awareness, ↑bankruptcy, ↑barometer, ↑belief, ↑blackmail, ↑censure, ↑certainty, ↑character, ↑choice, ↑claim, ↑climate, ↑code, ↑commitment, ↑conduct, ↑connotation, ↑conscience, ↑consideration, ↑conviction, ↑corruption, ↑courage, ↑cowardice, ↑credibility, ↑crisis, ↑critique, ↑crusade, ↑decay, ↑decency, ↑decline, ↑development, ↑dilemma, ↑dimension, ↑disagreement, ↑disapproval, ↑distinction, ↑distress, ↑duty, ↑equivalent, ↑evil, ↑fabric, ↑faculty, ↑failing, ↑failure, ↑fault, ↑fervour, ↑fibre, ↑force, ↑foundation, ↑ground, ↑grounding, ↑guardian, ↑guidance, ↑idea, ↑ideal, ↑imagination, ↑implication, ↑improvement, ↑indignation, ↑inferiority, ↑instruction, ↑integrity, ↑intuition, ↑issue, ↑judgement, ↑justification, ↑lapse, ↑lead, ↑leadership, ↑lesson, ↑majority, ↑message, ↑motivation, ↑norm, ↑objection, ↑obligation, ↑order, ↑outlook, ↑outrage, ↑overtone, ↑panic, ↑passion, ↑perfection, ↑philosopher, ↑philosophy, ↑point of view, ↑principle, ↑problem, ↑progress, ↑purity, ↑quality, ↑question, ↑reasoning, ↑reflection, ↑reform, ↑responsibility, ↑restraint, ↑revulsion, ↑right, ↑rule, ↑scruples, ↑sense, ↑sentiment, ↑seriousness, ↑shortcoming, ↑significance, ↑stance, ↑stand, ↑standard, ↑standing, ↑standpoint, ↑stature, ↑superior, ↑superiority, ↑support, ↑tale, ↑teaching, ↑theology, ↑tone, ↑training, ↑truth, ↑universe, ↑urgency, ↑vacuum, ↑value, ↑victory, ↑virtue, ↑vision, ↑weakness, ↑wrong, ↑yardstick