How to Use amoral in a Sentence

amoral

adjective
  • Dark, gritty, amoral superheroes have been the norm for decades.
    — John Brownlee, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2006
  • His amoral drive is also what pushes him to want to stage a parody.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Just how amoral are Americans these days with so much at stake as never before?
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 May 2024
  • Leaving these questions unasked opens the door to a mercenary, amoral public life.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • That all of this is amoral on its face should be clear to anyone who values a functional democracy.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Who cared about a show focusing on rich people who were selfish, greedy, amoral, and power-hungry?
    — oregonlive, 13 Oct. 2021
  • So too did Greenfield, as an amoral best man who’s suspiciously good at cleaning up crime scenes.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Not Trump, of all presidents, an amoral self-indulgent grifter by trade and liar by practice.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Ethics, however, for Rich, stood at a remove from amoral sonic pleasure.
    — Wayne Koestenbaum, New York Times, 15 July 2016
  • The final minutes skipped ahead to Saul (Bob Odenkirk) in full, bleak, amoral glory.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 26 July 2022
  • Yet beyond the horror, the true insight is that intense curiosity about the world is amoral.
    — Jeff Vandermeer, The Atlantic, 9 May 2017
  • That act had an interesting type of moral thinking behind it, an amoral, strange sort of thinking behind it.
    — Isaac Feldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Starkly amoral, with not a whisper of redemption, the novel contains the seeds of much the author would go on to write.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Pop music is censored; women can’t sing alone in front of non-related male spectators; dances are deemed amoral.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Never trust an amoral Harvard man who can propose edits to your document.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Trainspotting, the rare junkie movie that does work, offsetting heroin-use horrors with the right amount of amoral energy.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Mar. 2021
  • There's also a cat named The Cat, voiced by Kate Mulgrew with amoral relish.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Their amoral elitism is the only part of neo-Gossip Girl that feels like Gossip Girl.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 5 July 2021
  • His hunger for dirt on Hunter Biden sounds like familiar, amoral, gutter politics.
    — Nancy Gibbs, Time, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Gray is a very smart actor and wholly credible as a woman swimming in the amoral landscape of big tech, cursed by having eyes wide open.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The bodies are thus the moral universe in which the amoral Don Giovanni operates.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Sarsgaard is every bit his equal as the robotic, amoral CIA analyst.
    — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
  • There is nothing wrong or amoral about the Cowboys collecting wins against Wilson and Dobbs these next two weeks.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Skipper can be as crafty and cunning as the best of them, but lying like that has an amoral dimension to it that is certainly not Skipperesque.
    — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Facebook’s news feed, or Google’s search ranking for that matter, is coldly aloof and amoral, and merely shows us what its creators think will keep us engaged.
    — Susan Crawford, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2018
  • If Joe Biden looks old and incompetent, Trump looks old, amoral and unethical.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2024
  • By this time, the reader cannot help but admire Dirk, who is cut from the same cloth as those heroically amoral overreachers in Jacobean tragedy.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 5 June 2019
  • This savage, amoral and unfeeling Robin Hood has been written to invert everything modern fans like about him.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • Anna Madeley as Aunt Medora, Ellen’s lively, amoral aunt and former guardian.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The film, a remake of Woo's original, follows an assassin with a code who can no longer abide by his amoral employer's rules any longer and seeks to leave the life.
    — Sydney Scott, Essence.com, 1 May 2018

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