cacoethics en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌkakəʊˈɛθɪks/
Etymology
From caco- + ethics.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Bad 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: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: