He desired to cure the European civilization of moral deterioration.

To that must be added the moral deterioration resulting from a ruthless economic struggle.

The masses turned away from Boris (as Karamzin and Tolstoy saw it) because of his rapid moral deterioration.

The reviewers have some reservations: The moral deterioration of the characters is hard to watch, and the inevitability of the plot's outcome can be stifling.

The war of the seventies had caused a further moral deterioration.

Here, too, is a struggle which a Dog can understand, even though the struggle does reveal the mental and moral deterioration of its central character.

The stripper party is the latest in a series of incidents in which students have behaved irresponsibly, she said, indicating a much larger moral deterioration.

Promise Keepers organizers said their goal was to reverse the moral and social deterioration caused by men abandoning their family responsibilities.

During the Renaissance, English women disrespected their husbands because they were free to do what they wanted, which society believed led to a moral deterioration.