ethicaleth‧i‧cal /ˈeθɪkəl/ ●●○ AWL adjective [no comparative] 
The use of animals in scientific tests raises difficult ethical questions. The president must have the highest ethical standards.2morally good or correct OPP unethical: I don’t think it’s ethical for you to accept a job you know you can’t do. ethical investment policies (=investing only in businesses that are considered morally acceptable) → unethical—ethically /-kli/ adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Emmanuel Hospital is devoted to quality care and high ethical standards.
- Is it ethical to use this drug to control patients' behaviour?
- It would not be ethical for me, as a doctor, to talk to you about my patients.
- There is only one ethical way to carry out this experiment.
- This type of advertisement may be legal, but is it ethical?
- And from this stems the origin of ethical systems governing behaviour.
- Considered the moral consequences of our conduct, and weighed the ethical choices that it necessarily demands?
- For Ross obligatoriness or rightness, as a property of possible actions, is the most basic ethical property or relation.
- In his more positive ethical viewpoint Butler tries to give sense to the old opinion that one should live according to nature.
- She has such integrity, such an ethical, high-minded view of what the human spirit can attain.
- The effort to inculcate ethical behavior without religious faith seems one of the great fiascoes of the modern age.
Longman Language Activatormorally good behaviour
· The nuns here do many good things for people in the local community.it is good of somebody to do something · It was very good of you to hand the money in to the police - a lot of people would have just kept it.good deed (=a good action) · Victor devoted his life to helping others and didn't expect any reward for his good deeds.
morally correct: · You can't do that. It's not right.· I only want to do the right thing.· It's not right to tell lies.it's only right (=anything else would not be right): · It's only right that parents should help their children.
morally correct, especially according to a set of ideas about how people should behave in a particular profession: · Is it ethical to use this drug to control patients' behaviour?· There is only one ethical way to carry out this experiment.
fair, honest, or kind: · Perhaps Jack wanted to do something decent, for a change.it is decent of somebody to do something: · It's very decent of you to be so pleased for me -- I know how much you wanted to win this competition.
British /honorable American morally correct and showing that you have high moral standards, especially if you are doing something that you feel is your duty: · It would not be honourable for me, as a solicitor, to reveal my client's business to anyone.· The most honorable thing that he can do in these circumstances is to resign.
so good that no one can criticize or find any fault in the way you behave: · Throughout this ordeal her behaviour was beyond reproach.· We need a chairman whose reputation and character are above reproach.
relating to what is right or wrong · We follow the moral laws laid down by our religion.· They live according to a deeply held moral code.· Everything that he writes has a high moral purpose.moral obligation (=something that you do not have to do, but your moral sense says that you must do) · You have a moral obligation to help your sister's children.
according to what is right or wrong, or good or evil: · We are morally opposed to capital punishment.· The government is morally obliged to do all it can for the refugees.· It is morally wrong to punish someone for something they did not do.
morally correct according to the rules of behaviour in a particular profession: · It would not be ethical for me, as a doctor, to talk to you about my patients.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The use of animals in scientific tests raises difficult ethical questions. The president must have the highest ethical standards. ethical investment policies (=investing only in businesses that are considered morally acceptable)COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1relating to principles of what is right and wrong SYN moralethical issues/questions/problems The use of animals in scientific tests raises difficult ethical questions. The president must have the highest ethical standards. ethical investment policies (=investing only in businesses that are considered morally acceptable)· Doctors face a moral dilemma over how long to prolong someone's life.
· The book discusses the ethical dimension involved in genetic engineering.
· The issue of animal testing is an ethical minefield.
(=beliefs about what is right and wrong)· Their ethical and moral outlook concerning terrorism is the complete opposite of mine.
(=one relating to principles of what is right and wrong)· This area of medical research poses serious ethical questions that doctors alone cannot answer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· In these circumstances it is more ethical to tell the participants about the screen.· Man was not more ethical then.
NOUN· We have embodied the highest possible standards in our ethical codes.· In general, unprofessional conduct refers to any action that violates the rules or ethical code of the teaching profession.
· We are establishing an ethical committee to look at the effects of advanced techniques in animal breeding.· The study was approved by the local ethical committee.· All subjects gave informed consent for the study, which was approved by the local ethical committee.· Because the technique involves work with genes it must be approved by an independent ethical committee.· The latter procedure was in agreement with the recommendations from the local ethical committee.· The study was approved by the local ethical committee and informed consent was obtained from all volunteers.· Local ethical committee approval was obtained, and all patients had given fully informed consent to the procedures.
· A distinctive feature of the course is the emphasis on ethical concerns and in particular on applied ethics in each year of study.· No matter how it worked, the idea raises ethical concerns for the medical profession, two physician-legislators said.· And there are ethical concerns which make the law so important to our society.
· Bolting is a purely ethical consideration, no more, no less.· Because of ethical considerations no placebo group was established and it is conceded that this inevitably limits the strength of overall conclusions made.· As part of its brief, the working party will examine the moral and ethical considerations of launching an advertising campaign.· On the one hand, there are many topics that could be experimented on that are barred by ethical considerations.
· For over a decade I lived with this new knowledge and with the ethical dilemma surrounding my own pursuit of insider research.
· Secondly, the ethical dimension of reason is apparent in the communicative process of a discipline.· A second preoccupation evident in these papers is responsibility, and what could roughly be described as the ethical dimension of conceptualisation.· Both these statements have important ethical dimensions, and they require separate analysis.
· Ample discussion of these procedures and the ethical implications should be allowed in the timetable.· However, removing the stem cells kills the embryo, and therefore has serious ethical implications.· Both these issues have ethical implications in terms of gaining access to children and in the actual process of data generation.
· First, is it an ethical investment policy to encourage people to try to have their cake and eat it?· On Earth, progressive tabernacles called ethical investment schemes have been using currency to support social causes for some time.· In the past two years ethical investment has developed from a niche market into the mainstream market.
· Are we to teach science but never consider the ethical issues?· The ethical issue is on the table now.· New Genetics, New Food New technology is already raising ethical issues for both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.· Now there is a patchwork of state legislation enacted to deal with the legal and ethical issues raised by genetic information.· The ethical issue therefore reduces to that dealt with above.· Two, can you come up with some moral principle, some ethical issue that is so important it justifies deception?· Contrary to a lawyer's yen for neatness there are few unambiguous signposts for modern medics facing this or many other ethical issues.· The nature of its relationship to the poor is perhaps the most vexing ethical issue that Holy Trinity faces.
· For those members to support Gingrich after his ethical lapses became such big news is the ultimate in loyalty.· None of what has been said suggests that we should ignore ethical lapses or law-breaking by public figures.
· In Porto Alegre and Montevideo the left is proposing and practising a new set of ethical principles and political values.· For Ross the most important method is that of testing ethical principles by reflective intuition.· But what ethical principles should guide the allocation of resources?· They stem from an inadequate analysis of the legal and ethical principles involved.
· If criminal activities are clearly involved, then the researcher has an ethical problem.· Some people feel that as a result of these ethical problems, the speaker and the president will be driven to compromise.· Briant's work throws up considerable ethical problems that must be explored.· One result of voter passiveness Nov. 5 was the return to office of two leaders with highly advertised ethical problems.· Britain is considering the ethical problems and has yet to authorise the research.· Both the first lady and the speaker have serious and unresolved legal and ethical problems that fuel the fury of their opponents.· We did not find it feasible, however, because of potential ethical problems, to collect bile from such a patient group.· This, not his ethical problems, caused the steepest dive in his national popularity, to its current nadir.
· Occasionally - leaving any ethical questions aside - taped evidence can help to settle a point in dispute.· But a larger ethical question hung in the thick, tropical air.· I submit that there are logistical, financial, and indeed ethical questions to be addressed first.· And because sperm now can be extracted after death, doctors must address the ethical questions raised by the lack of permission.· Apart from the ethical questions, the costs of these measures are disproportionate to any public health benefits.· Looked at this way, the question of how best to safeguard Venice's heritage is in fact an ethical question.· At the heart of all these issues lie ethical questions.
· As a result of these findings Glaxo stopped clinical trials comparing ranitidine with omeprazole for ethical reasons.· This is not possible for obvious ethical reasons.· Plundering enroute was forbidden, probably because it reduced the speed of the army rather than for any ethical reasons.· For ethical reasons, experimental proof of direct person-to-person transmission is not feasible.· Thorough examination including endoscopy with biopsy of asymptomatic patients, however, is hardly conceivable because of ethical reasons.· Comparative politics, in particular, can not use experimentation for both practical and ethical reasons.
· It requires the highest ethical standards and immense skill.· The ethical standards of Wall Street have to be monitored at all levels.· As well as the physical provisions, certain moral and ethical standards had to be met in order to gain eternity.· They appealed to the selfless moral and ethical standards we like to believe we possess.· The Finance Houses Association were also anxious to ensure that collection practices conformed to the highest ethical standards.· Only 19 percent of the respondents gave lawyers high marks for maintaining honest and ethical standards.· It does however represent an ethical standard which the press should be reluctant to infringe other than for reasons of genuine public interest.· He refused to lower his ethical standards for higher ratings.
· A route must be led, on sight, without clipping the bolt, to make an ethical statement.· Thus ethical statements can not be true or false in a basic way, any more than a command can be.· Attitude, then, can be inconsistent with attitude, and ethical statement with ethical statement.
· And from this stems the origin of ethical systems governing behaviour.· Sen claims it is essentially a matter of which variable is given priority that separates the major ethical systems and ideologies.
· What about Marxists' own morality, or ethical values?· Hold your market system accountable by standing your ethical values up against your healthcare costs.· It had promoted ethical values which were essential to society.· The Civil and Political Rights Covenant is rooted in western legal and ethical values.· Am I to base my ethical values on the warmth and nature of my social relations?
The use of animals in scientific tests raises difficult ethical questions. The president must have the highest ethical standards.2morally good or correct OPP unethical: I don’t think it’s ethical for you to accept a job you know you can’t do. ethical investment policies (=investing only in businesses that are considered morally acceptable) → unethical—ethically /-kli/ adverb