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immoralize

verb

Etymology

From immoral + -ize.

  1. derived from mōrālis — “relating to manners or morals”
  2. derived from moral
  3. inherited from moral
  4. formed as immoral — “im- + moral”
  5. suffixed as immoralize — “immoral + ize”

Definitions

  1. To corrupt

    To corrupt; to make immoral.

    • 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?

  2. To decry as immoral.

    • 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.

  3. To behave immorally or promote immorality.

    • 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA