morality police
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A police force tasked with enforcing a specific moral code, especially a religious one.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The morality police—known as the Gasht-e Ershad or "Guidance Patrol"—were established under president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to "spread the culture of modesty and hijab". The units began patrols in 2006."