cacoethics

caco·ethics
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/ˌkakəʊˈɛθɪks/

noun

Bad ethics or morals; bad habits.

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Meanings

nouncacoethics (uncountable)
  1. uncountableBad ethics or morals; bad habits.

    The correspondence appears to have begun in one of the endless foolishnesses about contemporary novel-writing which appear to beguile the leisure of so many of our modern Cacoëthics.

    1885, Punch, volumes 88–89, →OCLC, page 1
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    In the ensuing clashes between nouveau-cons and their more or less double-crossed doppelgangers, taking the part of either is to administer the kiss of life to a dying tradition or breathing new life into cacoethics.

    2014 March 3, M. F. Dail, Limbodeswills Wain, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN

Origin

From caco- + ethics.

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Chicago

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