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sittenwidrig — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • immoral adj Going against accepted standards of right and wrong; morally wrong.
  • licentious adj Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.

Senses

sittenwidrig is used for these senses in English:

  • immoral Breaching principles of natural law, rectitude, or justice, and so inconsistent with the demands of virtue, purity, or "good morals"; not right, not moral. (Compare unethical, illegal.)
  • licentious Disregarding accepted rules.

licentious — full definition

  1. adj Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.
  2. adj Disregarding accepted rules.

Related German words