immoralist

English

Etymology

immoral +‎ -ist

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɒɹəˌlɪst/

Noun

immoralist (plural immoralists)

1. An advocate of immorality
   • 2002 February 22, Nicholas de Jongh, “Escapist pleasure as Vanessa and Joely share stage”, in Evening Standard, London, page 7:

     WHEN it comes to poking serious fun at High Society and making a quiet mockery of its hypocritical ways there’s still no one one^[sic] to match the Victorian age’s master of homosexual immorality, Mr Oscar Wilde. […] Wilde, being a first-class subversive, implies that the Wicked Lady, an unshamed adventureress and serial lover, ought be admired for the courage of her convictions: by contrast he mocks the aristocrats as immoralists desperate to be caught in a good light.

2. An adherent or practitioner of immoralism

Translations

an advocate of immorality

• German: Immoralist
• Polish: immoralista (pl) m, immoralistka f
• Portuguese: imoralista (pt) m or f
• Russian: имморали́ст m (immoralíst)