In a manner conforming to social standards

Usage examples of ethically.

That he could enter the tower showed that he was very ethically advanced.

But more is demanded of us, ethically speaking, than of you resurrectees.

Two distinct elements are combined in this concept of just war: first, the legitimacy of the military apparatus insofar as it is ethically grounded, and second, the effectiveness of military action to achieve the desired order and peace.

This new terrain of production and life opens for labor a future of metamorphoses that subjective cooperation can and must control ethically, politically, and productively.

Power becomes propaganda, ethically speaking, and regulation, economically speaking.

A reconciliation between men will be ethically valid if they are reconciled within themselves and with each other to the principle of aloneness and reciprocity, to the principle that there can be no valid ethics for the man who has not assumed his aloneness.

He found secrecy ethically objectionable as a member of the international scientific community, and practically impossible for a person of his gregarious nature.

Professor Landreth discovered that Gifford was operating a bit over the line, ethically speaking.

Every poll shows that Americans are sharply divided on the issue, regarding it as deeply troubling ethically and morally, and that while a majority support the right to legal abortion in the first trimester, large segments of the population favor important restrictions on the procedure.

Admitting that some experiments upon human being may be ethically permissible, and that other phases of such investigations are morally wrong, how are we to distinguish between them?

After some contemplation of the fine shadings of morality, it was decided that the use of specially produced duplicates, provided that they were terminated quickly and humanely immediately after their synthesis, was ethically permissible.

Nature as much as they do, to bring all that is knowable into her domain and yet to judge of some of her products, as let us say: baboons, tyrants, grand inquisitors, drunkards, philistines, modern buildings and bad verses, in an ethically and aesthetically disapproving sense and, moreover, to call this opinion natural.

More important, however, stoics strap themselves in ethically so that their actions have as few results as possible.

He'd actually seemed to believe she enjoyed the way the newsies hung about her like vultures, and he'd looked astounded when she'd expressed her opinion (with rather more precision and vigor than diplomacy) of him, his "analyses," and the batch of intellectually myopic, ideologically blinkered, and ethically crippled mental defectives for whom he produced his carefully tailored version of the war's events rather than taking the opportunity to play the "woman in the know" game.

Nensi was surprised that a machine could exhibit signs of impatience, but then reminded himself that synthetic consciousnesses were legally, morally, and ethically no longer considered to be machines, and for good reason.