Sentence examples for morally disagreeable from inspiring English sources

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He distinguishes between the morally "disagreeable or distasteful" and the morally criminal, the latter being subsumed under a broad category of what he calls "violence" (Williams 1978, 71).

Although Williams allows that some political actions that are popularly believed to be morally dubious, may well be morally acceptable when circumstances are properly understood, he casts a pretty wide net for the morally disagreeable.

To call it morally disagreeable is to signal the fact that certain valuable relations and ends are put under strain by it, but it is clearly not is the same league as torture, murder, or gross deceit.

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"Look, you can disagree without being disagreeable.

We can disagree without being disagreeable!

Don't be disagreeable when you disagree.

He disagreed without being disagreeable.

66/1 Disagree without being disagreeable.

Don't be overly disagreeable -- even if you disagree.

More than anything, though, this is a play about being morally disabled, especially in the case of Blanche, Laura's mother (gloriously played by Stella Gonet), whose denial of the disagreeable includes overlooking a Nazi cook.

"It's very disagreeable.

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