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How to use morally in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Morally means in terms of morals or ethics. Example: “Morally, it is a difficult issue to deal with.”

Examples of morally by meaning

adverbIn 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...
  • Seven in 10 of the hiring managers responsible for posting a ghost job this year “believe posting fake jobs is morally acceptable.”2024 December 26, Eira May, “The ghost jobs haunting your career search”, in Stack Overflow, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2024

adverbIn keeping of requirements of morality.

  • to behave morally

More sentences with morally

  • The pathological liar was morally inferior to his much nicer constituents.From the entry inferior
  • Obviously, other morally relevant considerations would apply to the case of a sentient fetus, as by acquiring sentience it acquires interests and moral status.From the entry sentient
  • Six years ago, I inherited a Labour Party that was politically, financially and morally bankrupt.2026 June 22, Keir Starmer, resignation speech. From the entry finished
  • “Do you believe the violence on January 6 was justified morally?” she asked.2022 July 8, Barton Gellman, quoting Michael Flynn, “What Happened to Michael Flynn?”, in The Atlantic. From the entry take the fifth
  • Absolutely nails the issues with this caponesque, morally ambivalent, strutting UN wannabee.2018 February 16, Jody, “Goodbye, Mr Brandis. Good Riddance”, in Quadrant Online. From the entry caponesque
  • What had traditionally been a morally neutral sport became loaded with a set of Victorian values.2011, Matt Rogan, Martin Rogan, Britain and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Legacy, page 15. From the entry loaded
  • Another application of unstable grasping—albeit morally condemnable—is confidence games, e.g., skill crane machines.2008 February 11, Lionel Birglen, Thierry Laliberté, Clément M. Gosselin, Underactuated Robotic Hands, Springer Science & Business Media…. From the entry skill crane
  • Superpredators theoretically arise from dysfunctional homes, inadequate schools, and morally bankrupt communities.2005, Gus Martin, Juvenile justice: process and systems. From the entry superpredator
  • A scug was an untidy, ill-mannered, and morally undeveloped boy, a shirker at games, bumptious and arrogant.1969, Ralph G. Martin, Jennie: the Life of Lady Randolph Churchill: The romantic years, 1854-1895, Prentice-Hall, page 54. From the entry scug
  • But who wants to go slumming (even morally) in an armchair?1967 August 19, Judith Crist, “This Week’s Movies”, in Merrill Panitt, editor, TV Guide, volume 15, number 33, Radnor, Pa.: Triangle…. From the entry ok
  • When man is morally bankrupt, he seeks something to live by and is ripe for Communist conversion.1962, United States Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates, U.S. Government Printing Office, page A3202. From the entry morally bankrupt
  • The students are growing and developing at an astonishing rate mentally, physically, and morally.1915: Religious Education, volume 10, page 533 (Religious Education Association). From the entry age of judgment
  • Deontologies that arise from status functions are not morally neutral.2021, Allan Beever, “Justification”, in Law’s Reality: A Philosophy of Law (Elgar Studies in Legal Theory), Cheltenham, Gloucestershire…. From the entry deontology
  • Intuitively, it is said, what we morally ought to do simply does not depend on what we want to do.2018, Stefan Fischer, The Origin of Oughtness: A Case for Metaethical Conativism, page 69. From the entry favoring
  • Subtweeting, vagueblogging, saying that The CW is instituting a program that is esoteric, abstruse, and worse, morally bankrupt."2015 December 7, Brook Becker, “New sexual health course based on relationships in Gossip Girl”, in The Collegian, University of Tulsa…. From the entry vagueblog
  • 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
  • According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.2012, Jennifer Mather Saul, Lying, Misleading, and What is Said, page 70. From the entry misleading
  • It's on this basis, I believe, that many morally concerned meat eaters justify purchasing meat from small, free-range animal farms.2011 April 8, James McWilliams, “An Inconvenient Truth: Free-Range Meat Isn't 'Natural'”, in The Atlantic. From the entry free-range
  • Our common room, thanks to a morally rectitudinous constitutional change some time previously, was known as the Nelson Mandela Room.2008 December 30, Libby Brooks, “Let heroes be unsung”, in The Guardian. From the entry rectitudinous
  • For, if racism against non-whites is morally wrong and unjustifiable, then how can racism against whites be morally right and justifiable?2007, Joseph Godson Amamoo, Ghana: 50 years of independence. From the entry racism
  • Call the process thinker who regards the killing of non-human animals for food as (usually) morally wrong a zoophile.2006, Gary Chartier, “Non-Human Animals and Process Theodicy”, in Religious Studies, volume 41, number 1, page 10. From the entry square
  • Volitionists agree that we can assess agents upon the basis of their morally relevant attitudes, as the attributionists claim.2006 December 15, Angela M. Smith, “Control, responsibility, and moral assessment”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 138, number 3, →DOI. From the entry attributionists
  • Not even the most rigid of canonists would hold these undispensed religious subjectively (i.e., morally) responsible for their objective apostasy.2002, F. Donald Logan, Runaway Religious in Medieval England, C.1240-1540, page 175. From the entry undispensed
  • The rule utilitarian is still committed to including all preferences, no matter how morally illegitimate they may appear.2001, Will Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press, page 29. From the entry win the day
  • The book opens with an examination of warism, the uncritical presumption that war is morally justified, even morally required.1991, Patrick G. Coy, Review of From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum, by D. L. Cady. International Social Science Review, 66(4)…. From the entry warism
  • When man loses the simple faith of his childhood, belief in home, family, and God, he is morally bankrupt.1962, United States Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates, U.S. Government Printing Office, page A3202. From the entry morally bankrupt
  • He was uncompromisingly religious, conscientious and morally unbending.1916, Elbert Hubbard, “Samuel Adams”, in Little Journeys Vol. 3: American Statesmen. From the entry in earnest
  • I don't think any one at all morally responsible for what he or she does at an English country house.1909, Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, act 3. From the entry country house
  • He wouldn't be able not to smell of the wretched man's blood, morally speaking, too strongly for condonations or complacencies.1901, Henry James, The Papers. From the entry condonations
  • A tense dynamic in which the virtuous believer is patronizingly positioned as morally correct, thus thrusting the nonvirtuous nonbeliever into shame and (possibly) submission.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 17. From the entry nonvirtuous
  • We have initiated a project to keep alive the memory of this morally untarnished, greedless, top to bottom Bengali, benefactor, and social server.2010, Muhammad Rahim, Memoirs of a Life Insurance Icon: Khuda Buksh, page 223. From the entry greedless
  • Is it possible to believe in a god-creator of moral principles and nevertheless not be atheophobic, i.e., not consider non-believers morally inferior?2009 October/November, David Rand, “Theism As Hate Propaganda”, in Free Inquiry, volume 29, number 6, →ISSN. From the entry atheophobic
  • They are vastly conceited individuals whom view themselves as especially intellectually and morally ferior to everyone whom does not embrace their particuliar utopianism.2003 January 25, “The Genocidal Rise of Communism Continues”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet). From the entry ferior
  • Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 3. From the entry transient
  • The first, harm-based account holds (roughly) that discrimination is morally bad when and to the extent that it brings about harm to the discriminatee or others.2023, Frej Klem Thomsen, “No Disrespect—But That Account Does Not Explain What Is Morally Bad About Discrimination”, in Journal of Ethics…. From the entry discriminatee
  • According to the Torah, all people are required to be morally good, but Jews are additionally required to protect the border that kedushah creates around us.2021 06, Eli L. Garfinkel, The JPS Jewish Heritage Torah Commentary, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 210. From the entry kedushah

Meaning of morally

  1. adverb In terms of morals or ethics.
  2. adverb In keeping of requirements of morality.
  3. adverb To all intents and purposes; practically.

Full definition of morally

Questions about morally in a sentence

How do you use morally in a sentence?
Morally is used as an adverb. For example: “Morally, it is a difficult issue to deal with.”
What is a short sentence with morally?
“to behave morally”
What does morally mean?
Morally means in terms of morals or ethics.

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