object lessonnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt ˌles.ən/us/ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt ˌles.ən/approvingan action or story that teaches you how or how not to act, or that clearly shows the facts of a situation, usually a bad one:
The disaster was an object lesson in how not to run a ship.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Morality and rules of behaviour
- antisocial
- bioethics
- book
- claim
- conscience
- decency
- double standard
- morality
- moralize
- morally
- norm
- precept
- social contract
- spirit
- the rights and wrongs idiom
- the ways of the world idiom
- two wrongs don't make a right idiom
- value
- voice
- wrong
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