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ethicless

ethicless adjective: without ethics.

Adjective

ethicless (not comparable)

  1. Without ethics.
    • They believe that people, rather than being dominated by what critics of capitalism described as ethicless self-interest and gain, should be characterized by a strong sense of "brotherly love" in their day-to-day relations.1976, Martin Abraham Abrahamsen, Cooperative business enterprise
    • The tools themselves are ethicless just as a scalpel can be used to heal or to harm. People have ethics.2005, Christopher Howard, Turning passions into profits: three steps to wealth and power

Origin of ethicless

From ethic + -less.

Words formed from ethicless

Questions about ethicless

What does ethicless mean?
Ethicless means without ethics.
What part of speech is ethicless?
Ethicless is an adjective.

Words near ethicless in the dictionary

  1. ethicized
  2. ethicizes
  3. ethicizing
  4. ethick
  5. ethicks
  6. ethicless
  7. ethiclessness
  8. ethicology
  9. ethicomoral
  10. ethicophysical
  11. ethicopolitical

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