morally

Adverb

morally (comparative more morally, superlative most morally)

1. In terms of morals or ethics.
   • Morally, it is a difficult issue to deal with.
   • There is no pressure to leave, Mondelez chief executive Dirk Van de Put admitted last week, claiming that investors did not “morally care” whether companies such as the Chicago-based chocolate maker did business in Russia.2024 March 2, Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, quoting Dirk Van de Put, “Western groups stay put in Russia as war fatigue dulls outcry”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London: The Financial...
2. In keeping of requirements of morality.
   • to behave morally

   Synonyms:

   decently, modestly, righteously, becomingly, chastely, continently, correctly, decorously, deservingly, dutifully

3. To all intents and purposes; practically.
4. Used to clarify that a statement is made in analogy, and every detail may not be strictly true.
   • In the short exact sequence 0#92;xrightarrow#123;q#125;A#92;xrightarrow#123;r#125;B#92;xrightarrow#123;s#125;C#92;xrightarrow#123;t#125;0, B is morally A#92;timesC, even if in reality the sequence may fail to split.
   • The data governing the deformations of X then consist of what we call a structure, which is a collection of slabs and walls: these are codimension-one polyhedral subsets of B, contained locally in affine hyperplanes, along with some attached data of a ring automorphism which is used in our gluing...2011, Mark Gross, Bernd Siebert, “From Real Affine Geometry to Complex Geometry”, in Annals of Mathematics, page 1304