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Ethical

adjective

Of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics. "Ethical theories"

Conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behavior. "Ethical medical practice" , "An ethical problem" , "Had no ethical objection to drinking" , "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants" Antonym: unethical.

Adhering to ethical and moral principles. Synonyms: honorable, honourable. "Followed the only honorable course of action"

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"Ethical" Quotes from Famous Books

... does not enter. No one can read it without receiving a new impulse to his thoughts, and one usually in the right direction. The author is evidently a man of heart as well as of intellect, and inclines to a generous view of most subjects. His book should be looked at rather in the light of an ethical treatise than of a novel. The plot is less in his mind than the moral. But such hybrid productions are apt to fail of their end. If we desire to study philosophy, commend us to the regular documents. We do not wish for truth, as she emerges dripping from the well, to be clothed in the garments of ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 • Various

... animals it is against the moral and ethical codes of all species of vertebrates for the strong to bully and oppress the weak; but it is almost everywhere a common rule of action with about ten per ...

— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday

... was asking him to tell them exactly what it was that they were to discuss. Instinctively he looked at Martin as he spoke. As always, with the first word there came over him a sense of mastery and happiness, a desire to move people like pawns, a readiness to twist any principle, moral and ethical, if he might bend it to his purpose. Instinctively he pitched his voice, formed his mouth, spread his hands upon the broad arms of his chair exactly as an actor fills in ...

— The Cathedral • Hugh Walpole

... you quote from Theognis, I think has an ethical rather than a political object. The whole piece is ...

— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

... the ethical plane struck Phoebe speechless. She blushed and stammered, but had no reply to make. The seeming defeat really concealed a victory, however, for it instantly converted Copernicus ...

— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye

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