"moral deterioration" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the decline or deterioration of a person's moral values or principles. Examples: 1. The strict laws and harsh punishments for crimes were put in place to prevent moral deterioration in society. 2. The constant exposure to violence and inappropriate content on television has been linked to the moral deterioration of children. 3. The company's scandalous practices have led to a widespread sense of moral deterioration among its employees.
Most of the social ills, some argue, come from moral deterioration in a country where virtue was once revered.
A man who views rot as the ultimate form of self-expression, he's quite vain about moral deterioration, and he keeps himself a bewigged and perfumed dandy.
Unfortunately, we know so little about his character outside the immediate frame of the story that his heavily ironic comeuppance seems more a contrivance than poetic justice for his moral deterioration.
By the mid-1990's, and with the direct-action movement losing steam, Mr. Terry continued to find the ever-moving public spotlight by railing against moral deterioration and aligning himself with extreme right-wing causes.
The set designer Rebecca Vary avoided painting entirely for the portraits used to chart the title character's moral deterioration in "The Picture of Dorian Gray," which closes today at the Irish Repertory Theater.
In a turnabout that stunned his countrymen in 1989, Mr. Theodorakis, attacking the Socialists for Greece's "moral deterioration," spoke out for the conservatives, enraging, among others, his old friend the actress Melina Mercouri, who called him pitiful.
CHART Alarming evidence of the deterioration of moral and physical fibre throughout the United States, as gleaned from the newspapers.
By W. E. Farbstein The New Yorker, May 17 , 1930P. 33 CHART Alarming evidence of the deterioration of moral and physical fibre throughout the United States, as gleaned from the newspapers.
"The violence that children live is an expression of moral, social and cultural deterioration.
Far from acknowledging or adopting the labels of moral weakness or class deterioration, these adults constructed their family size as a marker of a proud sectarian identity.
