cacoethics
English
Etymology
From caco- + ethicsCategory:English terms prefixed with caco-#ETHICS.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkakəʊˈɛθɪks/Category:English 4-syllable words#CACOETHICSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CACOETHICS
- Hyphenation: caco‧ethics
Noun
cacoethics (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#CACOETHICSCategory:English nouns#CACOETHICSCategory:English uncountable nouns#CACOETHICSCategory:English uncountable nouns#CACOETHICSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CACOETHICSCategory:Pages with entries#CACOETHICSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CACOETHICS
- Bad ethics or morals; bad habits.
- 1885, Punch, volumes 88–89, →OCLC, page 1:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#CACOETHICS
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#CACOETHICS
Usage notes
Not 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.