How to say "immoral" in Japanese
- 極道ごくどうna-adjective, nounCovers 'immoral' in the sense of wicked or profligate: a dissolute way of life outside accepted morality. Typical context: describing a person who lives by vice and crime, outside respectable society.
- 不潔ふけつna-adjective, nounCovers 'immoral' as morally dirty rather than wicked: indecent or obscene, tainted with impurity. Typical context: calling money or a story dirty in a moral sense.
Choose 極道 for 'immoral' describing a wicked, profligate way of life, and 不潔 for 'immoral' meaning morally dirty — indecent or obscene, as with dirty money or dirty stories.
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