How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. R. W. Holder. 2014.
moral fibre — ▶ noun STRENGTH OF CHARACTER, fibre, fortitude, resolve, backbone, spine, mettle, firmness of purpose. * * * moral fibre UK US noun [uncountable] someone’s ability to do what is morally correct in a particular situation lack moral fibre: The poet … Useful english dictionary
moral fibre — UK / US noun [uncountable] someone s ability to do what is morally correct in a particular situation lack moral fibre: The poet lived in an age that lacked moral fibre … English dictionary
moral fiber — ˌmoral ˈfibre [moral fibre] (BrE) (NAmE ˌmoral ˈfiber) noun … Useful english dictionary
fibre — (BrE) (AmE fiber) noun 1 in food ADJECTIVE ▪ dietary ▪ your total daily intake of dietary fibre ▪ vegetable VERB + FIBRE/FIBER ▪ be high in … Collocations dictionary
moral — mor|al1 W2S3 [ˈmɔrəl US ˈmo: ] adj [Date: 1300 1400; : Latin; Origin: moralis, from mos what people usually or traditionally do ] 1.) [only before noun] relating to the principles of what is right and wrong behaviour, and with the difference… … Dictionary of contemporary English
collectivism — A term with a general and a variety of specific applications. In the most common usage it refers to any political or socio economic theory or practice which encourages communal or state ownership and control of the means of production and… … Dictionary of sociology
Combat stress reaction — Shell shock and shell shocked redirect here. For other uses, see Shell shock (disambiguation). Image from World War I taken in an Australian dressing station near Ypres in 1917. The wounded soldier in the lower left of the photo has a dazed… … Wikipedia
LMF — may stand for:* Lexical Markup Framework, an ISO standard * Lazy Mutha Fucka, a Cantonese hip hop band from Hong Kong * Lack of Moral Fibre, a term used for RAF WW2 aircrew who exhibited cowardice or shellshock. * Leet MoFo s, a global online… … Wikipedia
Psychology (The separation of) from philosophy — The separation of psychology from philosophy Studies in the sciences of mind 1815–1879 Edward S.Reed THE IMPOSSIBLE SCIENCE Traditional metaphysics The consensus of European opinion during and immediately after the Napoleonic era was that… … History of philosophy
sophist — /sof ist/, n. 1. (often cap.) Gk. Hist. a. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. b. a person belonging to this class at a later … Universalium
