morally bankrupt

adj

Etymology

The term bankrupt is used in the sense of completely lacking something.

Definitions

  1. Having no morals, unethical.

    • When man loses the simple faith of his childhood, belief in home, family, and God, he is morally bankrupt. When man is morally bankrupt, he seeks something to live by and is ripe for Communist conversion.
    • Is it morally bankrupt of a company to switch from one generally accepted accounting method to another generally accepted accounting method just because the switch happens to increase reported earnings?

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