Meaning of moral | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Spanish.
2. A township in Shelby County, Indiana, United States.
3. The ethical significance or practical lesson.
4. moral (relating to right and wrong)
5. Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
   in-plural
6. moral (conforming to a standard of right behaviour)
7. A depiction of good or heroic actions.
8. morals, standard (modes of conduct)
9. A morality play.
   obsolete
10. morale (the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)
11. A moral certainty.
    dated, slang
12. mulberry tree
13. An exact counterpart.
    dated, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.”

“We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.”

“a candidate with strong morals”

“"You'd better not collar anything now, because it's a moral that old Antonio would nip out behind one of those cases."”

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