Trusty vs Moral - What's the difference?
trusty | moral | Related terms |
Reliable or trustworthy.
A trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.
* 1941 , James Howell Street, In my father's house
*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 58:
*:The cell block is clean and doesn't smell of disinfectant. The trusties do all the work. The supply of trusties is always ample.
Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
* Sir M. Hale
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
Capable of right and wrong action.
Probable but not proved.
Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.
* Macaulay
Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
(obsolete) A morality play.
Trusty is a related term of moral.
As nouns the difference between trusty and moral
is that trusty is a trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges while moral is moral.As an adjective trusty
is reliable or trustworthy.trusty
English
Adjective
(er)Noun
(trusties)- We usta have a rule that if a trusty shot an escaping convict, then the trusty would go free.
moral
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.
- the wiser and more moral part of mankind
Synonyms
* (conforming to a standard of right behaviour) ethical, incorruptible, noble, righteous, virtuous * (probable but not proved) virtualAntonyms
* immoral, amoral, non-moral, unmoralDerived terms
* moral compass * moral high ground * moral minimumNoun
(en noun)- The moral of the (The Boy Who Cried Wolf) is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.
- We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.
