morality police

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morality police

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  1. uncountable A police force tasked with enforcing a specific moral code, especially a religious one. Ms. Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman known as Jina in Kurdish, was stopped on Sept. 13 by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s morality police as she came out of Tehran’s Haghani metro station.

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noun police enforcing moral code

Françaispolice des mœurs
DeutschSittenpolizei
Русскийполи́ция нра́вов polícija nrávov

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@misc{morality_police_2026,
  title = {morality police},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/morality%20police},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}