Adjective : a completely amoral person. From Dictionary.com.
Nonetheless, the mind can fall under the spell of this amoralism, and when one does, it is not the case that one begins to act amorally, which is impossible for moral creatures; rather,one loses touch with the moral law and begins to act in a disordered fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Crucified Between Two Thieves:Catholic Social Thinking vs. Right and Left] Reference
Secretaries of State look at things dispationately and amorally. From Wordnik.com. [Former Secretaries of State to next President: Get over it. Get real. Be smart] Reference
Let me see how it feels to speculate amorally about politics for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Timing Is Everything] Reference
A corporation is simply put a big pile of money trying to become a bigger pile of money anyway anyhow, amorally. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Saudi Prince Calls Murdoch And Changes Fox News] Reference
It should teach them how to approach things rationally, empirically, and – again IMO – to an extent amorally. From Wordnik.com. [“The proper narrative of British history”] Reference
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how it's fruitless to expect corporations to be moral – they are dumbly, amorally acquisitive. From Wordnik.com. [Heard the one about the top banker who said sorry? No, me neither] Reference
It's the juxtoposition of a character who is completely, amorally pure and the imperfect people he's forced to work and deal with that keeps me coming back. From Wordnik.com. [Violent World of Parker] Reference
'Cept, of course, on Quiz-call (freeview ch37 - it's on NTL somewhere Al but I dunno where) with the funtastic Alex, the games aren't rigged, or even amorally ambiguous - ALEX WOULDN'T LIE TO US LIKE THAT!. From Wordnik.com. [Ya Big Fat Fuckin Cheats] Reference
Repeatedly, Tom responds to that common feeling — I experienced it strongly when living in Marseille during my early twenties — that once we step away from our familiar circles, we grow exuberantly, amorally free. From Wordnik.com. [This Woman Is Dangerous] Reference
"There are three elite groups in this country that professionally understand that they must function amorally: Hollywood, the media and politicians," says Howard Suber, cochairman of UCLA's film and TV producers program. From Wordnik.com. [the cultural elite] Reference
Driving home each day, I tune in to Sean Hannity, a man who dishonors his 5th grade English teacher by intentionally and amorally omitting readily available counterbalance to his arguments on the most important national issues. From Wordnik.com. [Hannity and Limbaugh: The Sinful Downfall of Broadcasting in the USA] Reference
And in Pakistan it has been made clear many times that the US has no more regard for innocent civilian life than it does in the other two hopeless countries, made so in the name of citizens who are as amorally indifferent as their leadership. From Wordnik.com. [Going, Going...] Reference
If one chooses to make business decisions amorally, one should take responsibility for the consequences, just as if one chooses to run a value-driven business, one should accept the consequences from that choice which, believe me, can be severe these days. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Fatigue Regulations] Reference
But whatever the causes of the different faces that different individuals wear while using power amorally, it seems clear that in America evil could seize control only with a smile on its face, not a terrifying leer, and only under the cloak of a false righteousness. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers Who Inhabit an Amoral World-- Part III: The Cloak of False Righteousness] Reference
The Asia expert Mark Helprin has argued that while we pursue our democratization efforts in the Middle East, increasingly befriending only those states whose internal systems resemble our own, China is poised to reap the substantial benefits of pursuing its interests amorally — what the United States did during the Cold War. From Wordnik.com. [How We Would Fight China] Reference
Certainly there are self-appointed guardians of morality out there – folks who'd like to scrub clean our minds and return to a utterly fictional prelapsarian past – but their efforts have been considerably less effective at squashing free expression than, say, computer glitches in the search algorithms of amorally-capitalistic monopolistic cultural gatekeepers. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-12] Reference
But the amorally has an candelilla in calamus an end to this ecliptic accurately desolately than speechlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Markos at Daily Kos has likewise, repeatedly illustrated cases where it is the traditional media, and not the bloggers, who act amorally. From Wordnik.com. [Wash Park Prophet] Reference
Glenn Greenwald points out, Obama has gone farther than the despicable John Yoo surreally and amorally extending the jurisdiction of executive privilege. From Wordnik.com. [Corrente] Reference
Now we are engaged in a vote, testing whether that notion, or any such notion so ill conceived and so amorally dedicated, can become the law of this land. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Between man as a worker, thoughtlessly and amorally lost in his labor's object, and man as a maker of society and its institutions, a builder of life in common. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Doing Something Well] Reference
The idea of the smart grid is basically the "efficiency" paradigm: the electrical grid does not, currently, do a good job of sorting out different uses of electricity and determining any kind of value or priority, the way you get (albeit amorally) in a market situation. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
But, the ten deaths on Saturday night were of those fighting (more radically than they realized) for social justice in a war that must be waged and must be embraced by any world citizen with even a shred left of conscience in these tragically troubled, amorally governed times. From Wordnik.com. [Corrente] Reference
I have followed the story for more than 20 years since I first met Ken McGinley, the Scot who was the driving force behind the Test Veterans Association and who began the court cases which the MoD has dragged out for years in the amorally cynical ploy of trying to make sure there are fewer veterans left to compensate. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I would put it to you that the News Ltd media isn’t so much pro Israel as it is (amorally) profit/power at all cost. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Story Never Told] Reference
When the crazy fundamentalist gay-basher tells me I’m acting amorally, I won’t mull over his point in the same way that I’d take a criticism from my wife. From Wordnik.com. [Killswitch] Reference
Businesses often act amorally. From Wordnik.com. [Dodd Praises Reid's Leadership On FISA] Reference
You can ` t exercise public power amorally. From Wordnik.com. [Inside: A Public and Private Life] Reference
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