loose morals
Flexible personal standards
Loose morals describes a lack of strict ethical standards, especially regarding sexual behavior.
Someone with loose morals is perceived as too willing to bend rules of propriety or engage in casual sex.
The phrase carries judgment—it's what disapproving people say about others: a woman of loose morals.
The looseness suggests restraints that should be tight have slackened.
- promiscuousSexually undiscriminating
- wantonDeliberately cruel without reason
- debaucheryExtreme indulgence in vices
- sleazyDisreputably low-quality
- lady of the nightSells sexual services
indecent · licentious · ill repute · hedonist · shameless · walk of shame · scandalous · scarlet letter · sinful · vice · temptation · corruption · decadent · lewd · lust · adultery · infidelity · wayward
- old-fashioned complaintskids these days, back in my day, no respect, work ethic, bad manners
- promiscuitypromiscuity, sleeping around, casual sex, hookups, one-night stands
- sexual sinsfornication, adultery, lust, lechery, lewdness
loose moralsstrict morals
Firm ethical standards
moral rectitude · moral discipline · puritanism · scrupulousness · uprightness
loose moralschastity
Abstaining from sexual activity
sexual purity · abstinence · celibacy · virginity · modesty
loose moralsgood character
respectability · good reputation · decency · blamelessness · moral authority
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