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unˈethical, a. (un-1 7.)
1871Tylor Prim. Cult. II. 94 The savage, unethical doctrine of continuance. 1879Spencer Data of Ethics xi. §68. 187 Ethics has to recognize the truth, recognized in unethical thought, that egoism comes before altruism. 1882Pall Mal G. 15 July 4/2 The intermingling of so unethical a people with..societies of European blood. Hence unˈethicalness.
1886W. S. Lilly in Fortn. Rev. 591 How can we predicate ethicalness or unethicalness of a thing?
Add: unˈethically adv.
1928U.S. Reports CCLXXVII. 439 Without the sanction of an Act of Congress, federal courts have no discretion to exclude evidence, the admission of which is not unconstitutional, because it was unethically procured. 1982J. Dunning Deadline iii. 31 A piece of junk mail, prepared by computer from lists that magazines so unethically sell to anyone who will buy them. |