- connected with beliefs and principles about what is right and wrong
- ethical issues/standards/questions/dilemmas
- the ethical problems of human embryo research
Extra Examples- She objected on purely ethical grounds.
- Doctors were expected to draw up ethical guidelines regarding relationships with patients.
- Our overseas suppliers are obliged to comply with certain ethical principles.
- There's an overwhelming ethical argument for the protection of the environment.
- What kind of ethical and political values underpin our society?
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- morally correct or acceptable
- it is ethical to do something Is it ethical to keep animals in zoos?
- it is ethical for somebody to do something It would have been more ethical for him to resign.
- ethical investment (= investing money in businesses that are considered morally acceptable)
- I don't consider the arms trade to be an ethical one.
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