morals

Noun

• A person's standards of behavior or beliefs about right and wrong.
• motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
• the significance of a story or event
• plural of moral

Verb

• third-person singular simple present indicative of moral

Examples

• His morals wouldn’t allow him to cheat, even for a winning Scrabble score.

Synonyms

ethical motive, ethics, lesson, moral, morality