ethicality
Americannoun
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the state or quality of being moral, in accordance with the standards of right and wrong.
It is difficult to consider a company truly moral if it is only pursuing ethicality for reasons of self-interest.
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the state or quality of being in accordance with standards for right conduct or practice, especially professional standards.
The article provides a useful checklist with which researchers can evaluate the ethicality of their research designs and procedures.
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One thing on which I rely, though, is on the professionalism, ethicality and decency of our armed forces.
From Fox News • Oct. 26, 2018
Individual ethicality had obsessed Swartz for years, and as he aged, it became perhaps his chief concern.
From Slate • Jan. 12, 2016
Table to Farm: Frittata Edition 's show about the ethicality of eating eggs and the practicality of keeping chickens, with special guest Peter Singer.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2013
Much of his fiction has explored Jewish "ethicality," which he defines as "how Jews felt they had to live in order to go on living."
From Time Magazine Archive
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