moral code

Noun

Meaning

moral code (plural moral codes)

(ethics) A written, formal, and consistent set of rules prescribing righteous behavior, accepted by a person or by a group of people.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

code of conduct morality ethics ideology ethic mores moral philosophy ethos categorical imperative axiology

Examples

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. Frédéric Bastiat

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. William O. Douglas

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience. Ayn Rand

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it. José Ortega y Gasset

Prentice: This appalling situation is the result of my lax moral code. It's clean living and Teach Yourself Woodwork for me from now on! Joe Orton

Close letter words and terms

moral burden moral certainty moral character moral commitment moral compass moral compulsion