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How to use ethically in a sentence

12 example sentences · adverb

Ethically means in an ethical manner. Example: “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.”

Examples of ethically by meaning

adverbIn 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...

More sentences with ethically

  • That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent.1936, Paul E. More, On Being Human. From the entry abhorrent
  • It’s a red herring to argue that “abandoning what would most help people on Earth today isn’t exactly ethically sound.”2022 September 9, Theodore Leinwand, “Neartermism and longtermism aren’t at odds”, in The Washington Post. From the entry longtermist
  • So shallow, so plastic, so morally and ethically corrupt.2014, James Baldwin, James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations, →ISBN. From the entry plastic
  • Through panentheistic sensibility, our ancestors conceived a Covenant between Creator and Creation that humankind is enjoined, spiritually and ethically, to uphold.1996, Michael W. Fox, The Boundless Circle: Caring for Creatures and Creation, page 266. From the entry panentheistic
  • “It’s very ethically murky territory,” Mr.2022 October 28, Maria Cramer, “Beaches? Cruises? ‘Dark’ Tourists Prefer the Gloomy and Macabre”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived…. From the entry murky
  • The "ethically sound" shelves tugged at my conscience, while the gourmet section tempted me with almond calisson at £13.99 and spelt dinkelbrot.2014 February 14, Tim Lott, “I hate shopping for food at the supermarket”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2015. From the entry calisson
  • Stettinius—she a poet; he a bleached man, with goatish whiskers and a sanctimonious white neck-cloth, who was Puritanically, ethically, gloomily, religiously atheistic.1914, Sinclair Lewis, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, […], page 119. From the entry puritanically
  • Nevertheless, the play also establishes him as an ethically compromised, fifth-century tragedic version of Achilles, much as its Odysseus is a late fifth-century tragedic version of his epic namesake.2012, Seth L. Schein, “Sophocles and Homer”, in Kirk Ormand, editor, A Companion to Sophocles, John Wiley & Sons, page 436. From the entry tragedic
  • We've imbued "natural food" with such virtuous connotations that meat supposedly raised according to the law of nature is, ipso facto, thought to be an ethically worthwhile choice.2011 April 8, James McWilliams, “An Inconvenient Truth: Free-Range Meat Isn't 'Natural'”, in The Atlantic. From the entry ipso facto
  • With respect to metaethics, some philosophers, known as cognitivists, believe that it is possible to identify objective criteria for determining what is ethically right or wrong, or good and bad.2006, Frederic G. Reamer, Social Work Values and Ethics, 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry metaethics

Meaning of ethically

  1. adverb In an ethical manner.
  2. adverb Concerning ethics.

Full definition of ethically

Questions about ethically in a sentence

How do you use ethically in a sentence?
Ethically is used as an adverb. For example: “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.”
What is a short sentence with ethically?
““It’s very ethically murky territory,” Mr.”
What does ethically mean?
Ethically means in an ethical manner.

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