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as in virtue
conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong
given his reputation for unswerving morality, scandal of any kind would wreck his political career
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as in principles
the code of good conduct for an individual or group
the morality that members of the Mafia are expected to adhere to—or suffer the consequences
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Recent Examples of morality
Now, that sounds like a great little morality table — tale at this point.
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Alex Crippen, CNBC, 25 Dec. 2025
Baudelaire and his publisher were prosecuted and fined for offending public morality, and several poems were outright banned, removed from later editions.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
The novel captures those stresses and how every decision seems to have outsized consequences, forcing people to choose between their sense of morality and quest for survival.
—Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 22 Dec. 2025
The Girl Who Cried Pearls is a morality fable that poses the thought that, in the search for love and social standing, are even the purest of heart safe from corruption?
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 16 Dec. 2025
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Carrying Mandarin-style wooden ducks (won-ang seteu) down the aisle symbolizes the groom's commitment to his partner and represents virtues like fidelity, harmony, and family in Korean culture.—
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The virtue of me organizing words and putting them in order and being able to evoke different types of emotions in different types of personalities, that’s a great talent.—
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Our students, families, and taxpayers deserve leaders who put the best interests of the community first, not individuals who appear focused on protecting one another instead of protecting the integrity of our school system.—
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Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism.—
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Last year’s trends sometimes become this year’s norms, and his thoughts about the year in aspect ratios, lenses, exposure levels, and camera types are worthy of your time.—
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Advertisement Redefining productivity for the 21st century, however, requires making big, often difficult changes to longstanding workplace norms, and likely won’t succeed without enthusiastic employee buy-in.—
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Whatever his contemporaries thought of Melville’s prose, at least his coworkers respected his dedication and honesty, the later a rare commodity in government work during the late nineteenth-century.—
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The first stop was Johannesburg’s Apartheid Museum, where the country’s painful past is preserved with unflinching honesty.—
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My goodness, Tennessee Williams.—
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Another category to consider adding to your wellness pantry is tonics, highly concentrated shots of goodness stocked with superfoods.—
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Capping those rates could backfire, resulting in significantly stricter lending standards and making credit unavailable to lower-income people or those with lower credit scores.—
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Beyond money, other issues expected to be hammered out in CBA talks include the length of the season, facility and travel standards, retirement benefits and changes to rookie deals.—
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Ornery, bizarre, cantankerous, brilliant, talented, stubborn—all characters from our lives.—
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The show features figure skating, DJs, music and sing-alongs as Mickey Mouse, Goofy and other Disney characters hit the stage.—
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The absolute rightness of being together.—
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For the most part, though, his attention to detail and his feeling for structure yielded readings of inherent, inarguable rightness.—
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“Morality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morality. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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