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ethically

UK/ˈɛθɪkəli/

ethically adverb: in an ethical manner.

Adverb

ethically (comparative more ethically, superlative most ethically)

  1. In an ethical manner.
    • In the final few weeks before the vote, a rash of ads appeared on radio and TV claiming that Hillary Clinton was too frail, too liberal and too ethically compromised to become president.2019 July 28, Sam Wolfson, “Looking for Mr T: the politicisation of testosterone”, in The Guardian
    • It is easy to implement, is not cost-prohibitive, and provides unbiased randomly sampled data in an ethically acceptable manner.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 12
  2. Concerning ethics.

ethically meaning in Tamil

ethically in Tamil

நெறிமுறை ரீதியாக

Examples of ethically in a sentence

  • That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent.
  • It’s a red herring to argue that “abandoning what would most help people on Earth today isn’t exactly ethically sound.”
  • It is easy to implement, is not cost-prohibitive, and provides unbiased randomly sampled data in an ethically acceptable manner.

All 12 example sentences with ethically

Antonyms of ethically

Forms of ethically

comparativemore ethically
superlativemost ethically

Origin of ethically

From ethical + -ly.

Words formed from ethically

Questions about ethically

What does ethically mean?
Ethically means in an ethical manner.
What is ethically in Tamil?
Ethically in Tamil is நெறிமுறை ரீதியாக. See Ethically meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ethically?
Ethically is an adverb.
How do you pronounce ethically?
Ethically is pronounced /ˈɛθɪkəli/ (UK).

Words near ethically in the dictionary

  1. ethical walls
  2. ethicalism
  3. ethicalisms
  4. ethicalities
  5. ethicality
  6. ethically
  7. ethically challenged
  8. ethically-challenged
  9. ethicalness
  10. ethicals
  11. ethician

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ethically (page history and authors); ethically (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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