what is the definition of a rake that is immoral
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- A man who is morally loose, short for rake-hell. It's an old slang, goes back to Elizabethan times or earlier I think. There's a series of paintings called the Rake's Progress, which shows a young man's descent into depravity. A new broom sweeps clean, but you can have more fun with an old rake.. That one is from an adult fortune cookie.
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Amoral vs. immoral Amoral vs. immoral. The adjective immoral means contrary to established moral principles. Immoral actions are corrupt, unethical, sinful, or just wrong. Amoral means (1) neither moral nor immoral, or (2) lacking moral sensibility. So while immoral and amoral might share a little common ground, there is a clear distinction: immoral things are bad, and amoral things are either neutral from a moral perspective or simply removed from moral considerations.
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- The rake of a roof is the outer edge that runs from the eave to the ridge, or peak, of the roof. It is typically perpendicular to the eave. Continue Reading
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- But these dead-tinted, hollow-eyed, angular skeletons of villages on the Rhone oppress me with the feeling that human life--very much of it--is a narrow, ugly, grovelling existence, which even calamity does not elevate, but rather tends to exhibit in all its bare vulgarity of conception; and I have a cruel conviction that the lives these ruins are the traces of were part of a gross sum of obscure vitality, that will be swept into the same oblivion with the generations of ants and beavers.
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Definition of 'rake' There is a revolving rake to scrape settled grit to a sump for removal. The heavy material settles to the bottom and is then dragged upwards by means of a rake, and then discharged. A rake is a device used in thickeners and settlers to move the settled solids toward the place where they leave the vessel.
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- Since abortion is immoral, the stigma attached to the character of the woman for the rest of her life by pro-lifers and Christians alike, isn't a realistic way for a woman to deal with the complexities and fears of an unwanted pregnancy.
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ABC's legal comedy Rake to return for fourth season in May with guest appearances from Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes and screen legend John Waters ABC's legal comedy Rake to return for fourth season in May with guest appearances from Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes and screen legend John Waters. ABC's acclaimed legal comedy Rake will return for a new season in May. Rake, which stars Richard Roxburgh as controversial barrister Cleaver Greene, will enter its fourth season when the first episode shows on Thursday May 19.
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Flatland A romance of many dimensions Relying too much on the offensive weapons of their acute angles instead of the defensive organs of good sense and seasonable simulation, these reckless creatures too often neglect the prescribed construction of the women's apartments, or irritate their wives by ill-advised expressions out of doors, which they refuse immediately to retract.
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rake Definitions (3) 1. To slant or incline from the vertical or horizontal. 2. A board or molding that is placed along the sloping edge of a frame gable to cover the edges of the siding. 3. A tool used to remove mortar from the face of a wall. Picture of rake.
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- View in context. There was a sort of poetic justice about it, after all, for the old lady had been the terror of the boys for miles around, and now the exiles feasted freely on forbidden plums, kicked up the gravel with profane boots unreproved, and played cricket in the big field where the irritable. View in context.
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Joe Cocker, Legendary Musician, Dead At 70 Singer Joe Cocker has died at age 70, reports the BBC. The singer-songwriter best known for his cover of The Beatles' With a Little Help From My Friends, died after a battle with lung disease, reports The Yorkshire Post.
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rakenoun  [ C] rakenoun [ C ] rake noun [ C ] (TOOL) › a garden tool with a long handle and long, pointed metal parts sticking out in a row at the bottom, used for making the earth level or for collecting leaves, etc. rake noun [ C ] (SLOPE) The rows of seats are laid out with a very steep rake.
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- Quinlan Terry has ploughed a lonely architectural furrow in an era during which the West largely repudiated its history in favour of spiritual emptiness, pseudo-sentimental supposedly 'caring' attitudes, vulgarity, and self-advertisement.
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S&M S&M is defined as sadism and masochism which is a practice of taking or causing abuse during sex. An example of S&M is one partner whipping another during intercourse.
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- Rake In the Stalls the floor has a gentle slope from the back of the theatre down towards the stage. This ensures rear rows of seats are raised slightly, improving, hopefully, the view. In the Circles, the rows of seats are arranges on steps. The higher the steps for each row the better the view. Unfortunately, the higher the steps, the more vertigo inducing the view! The word 'rake' also applies to the slope of the stage towards the audience.
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- femicide, the impunity with which these crimes are typically treated in South America , especially by the misogynist departments of justice, or injustice, as well as the misogynist police forces.
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rake rake /ˈreɪk/ verb. rakes; raked; raking. rake. /ˈreɪk/. verb. rakes; raked; raking. Learner's definition of RAKE. 1. : to use a rake to gather leaves, break apart soil, make ground smooth, etc. [+ object]. rake (up) leaves. I raked the gravel smooth. Rake (out) the soil until it's level. rake the lawn [=use a rake to remove leaves, sticks, etc., from the lawn].
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libertine A man who sleeps around with lots of different women and who is irresponsible and immoral in the way he conducts himself with those women is an example of a libertine.
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- It was a sort of vault on the ground floor at the back, with a despotic monster of a four-post bedstead in it, straddling over the whole place, putting one of his arbitrary legs into the fire-place and another into the doorway, and squeezing the wretched little washing-stand in quite a Divinely Righteous manner.
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Overview An enlarged heart (cardiomegaly) isn't a disease, but rather a sign of another condition. The term cardiomegaly refers to an enlarged heart seen on any imaging test, including a chest X-ray. Other tests are then needed to diagnose the condition causing your enlarged heart.
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The Rake The Rake originated on 4chan’s /b/ board in late 2005. An anonymous poster started a thread with the post “hey /b/ lets make a new monster”. Naturally, there were many ideas, but one stood out, and another poster created a new thread based on this idea. The thread started with this post:
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- Opprobrium is a shameful act or the disgrace of a shameful act. An example of opprobrium is the shame that comes with telling lies about a best friend. the disgrace or infamy attached to conduct viewed as grossly shameful.
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masochism mas·och·ism. 1. Passive algolagnia; a form of perversion, often sexual in nature, in which a person experiences pleasure in being abused, humiliated, or maltreated. Compare: sadism. 2. A general orientation in life that personal suffering relieves guilt and leads to a reward.
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- Yo Those Gothic Girls are fucking strife! That old man driving that beat ass car is STRIFE! Someone with a toe-up car, beat crib, ugly ass wife, medicore job, and a mediocre life would be complete STRIFE! #scrub #clown #joker #bumpkin #bo-zo. by The Anti-Strife April 04, 2006.
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Origin Meaning of Raining Cats and Dogs. Swift alluded to the filthy streets of England in the early eighteenth century, when heavy rains would carry along with it debris and dead animals. Swift shows another meaning, in how people make connections in trying to avoid the storm. Nevertheless, when it is over, they return to their own individual ways.
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Trampling Trampling can be a disturbance to ecology. Trampling refers to the sexual activity that involves being trampled underfoot by another person or persons. Trampling is common enough to support a subgenre of trampling pornography. Because trampling can be used to produce pain, the trampling fetish for some adherents is closely linked to sadomasochistic fetishism. A similar fetish is to imagine themselves as being tiny under another's feet, or being normal size, but being trampled by a giant person.