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morally bankrupt

morally bankrupt adjective: having no morals, unethical.

Adjective

morally bankrupt (comparative more morally bankrupt, superlative most morally bankrupt)

  1. (idiomatic) 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.1962, United States Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates, U.S. Government Printing Office, page A3202
    • 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?1974, Forbes, volume 113, Forbes Incorporated, page 49

Forms of morally bankrupt

comparativemore morally bankrupt
superlativemost morally bankrupt

Origin of morally bankrupt

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

Words formed from morally bankrupt

Questions about morally bankrupt

What does morally bankrupt mean?
Morally bankrupt means having no morals, unethical.
What part of speech is morally bankrupt?
Morally bankrupt is an adjective.

Words near morally bankrupt in the dictionary

  1. morallers
  2. moralless
  3. moralling
  4. moralls
  5. morally
  6. morally bankrupt
  7. moralness
  8. moralphobia
  9. morals
  10. morals of the stories
  11. morals of the story

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