cacoethics
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcacoethics (uncountable)
- Bad ethics or morals; bad habits.
- 2014 March 3, M. F. Dail, Limbodeswills Wain, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
- 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.
Usage notes
editNot to be confused with cacoethes ("compulsion; mania", or "a bad quality or disposition in a disease; a malignant tumour or ulcer") or its adjective cacoethic.