CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

不道德

bùdàodé

immoral

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

immoral

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 不道德 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不道德 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

小说家说谎并不是不道德的事。其实，谎话说得愈离谱、愈有技巧，就愈会受到公众和批评家的表扬。xiǎo shuō jiā shuō huǎng bìng bú shì bù dào dé de shì。 qí shí， huǎng huà shuō dé yù lí pǔ、 yù yǒu jì qiǎo， jiù yù huì shòu dào gōng zhòng hé pī píng jiā de biǎo yáng。

It's not immoral for a novelist to tell lies. In fact, the bigger the lies, the better lies, and the more the common folks and critics will praise you.

一个人就算不吃肉，也可以健健康康的生活。所以人杀生、吃肉，只不过是为了满足自己的口腹之欲而已。这种行为是不道德的。yí gè rén jiù suàn bù chī ròu， yě kě yǐ jiàn jiàn kāng kāng de shēng huó。 suǒ yǐ rén shā shēng、 chī ròu， zhǐ bù guò shì wèi le mǎn zú zì jǐ de kǒu fù zhī yù ér yǐ。 zhè zhǒng xíng wéi shì bù dào dé de。

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

综上所述，我们认为离婚是一种不道德的行为。zōng shàng suǒ shù， wǒ men rèn wéi lí hūn shì yī zhǒng bù dào dé de xíng wéi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 不道德.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不道德.

Directly before

是不道德1
不是不道德1
一种不道德1

Directly after

不道德的3

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 不道德

What does 不道德 mean in Chinese?

不道德 (bùdàodé) means immoral.

How do you pronounce 不道德?

不道德 is pronounced bùdàodé.

Is 不道德 an HSK word?

不道德 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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