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Dan Polansky (talk | contribs) restore 01:26, 29 November 2021: the changes making the def more specific do not match dict sources and do not trace to any sources; sources say "not morally acceptable", "morally wrong", and the like, drawing no distinction between unethical and immoral |
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# {{sense|particular modern sense}} [[breaching|Breaching]] certain [[established]] [[standards]] of [[social]] or [[professional]] [[conduct]] or [[behavior]], and so [[inconsistent]] with social or professional [[rectitude]]; not [[appropriate]], not [[ethical]] (''cf. [[immoral]], [[illegal]]''). |
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#: {{syn|en|inappropriate|incondonable|unacceptable|unapprovable|unpardonable}} |
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#: ''The corporation was accused of '''unethical''' behavior for knowingly producing a product suspected of harming health.'' |
#: ''The corporation was accused of '''unethical''' behavior for knowingly producing a product suspected of harming health.'' |
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#* {{Q|en|KIM CAROLLO of the ABC News Medical Unit|article: "Pay Dirt: Hundreds of Doctors Earned Big Money from Drug Companies"|, on ABC news.com|year=October 20, 2010|quote=It's ''not illegal'' for health care providers to be paid by pharmaceutical companies for certain things. ''Professional societies consider it '''unethical''' if a financial relationship isn't disclosed in certain situations''. But experts say it should always be disclosed in order to maintain a relationship of trust with patients.}} |
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#: {{syn|en|immoral|wrong}} |
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#* {{Q|en|NPR.org|article: "The Science And Ethics Of Research On Chimps"|year=June 2, 2011|quote=The Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, Texas is one of only a handful of sites around the world that conduct medical research on great apes. Scientists say their research is conducted humanely, but ''many animal rights groups say testing on chimps is unneeded and '''unethical'''''.}} |
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* English ''moral'' is a direct [[descendant]] of Latin ''moralis'', which was coined by the Roman essayist and [[rhetorician]] {{w|Cicero|Marcus Tullius Cicero}} as a translation of the Ancient Greek adjective {{m|grc|ἠθῐκός}} (from which English ''ethical''), a Greek term which rendered the same meaning as does modern English ''moral''. Unsurprisingly, then, in English the original meanings of ''"moral"'' and ''"ethical"'' were the same. However, following the introduction of (first) social, and (especially) professional standards of conduct in the early modern age, English ''ethical'' began to assume an additional, more particular meaning which referred to said professional and social standards of conduct, and over time, this particular meaning became the primary meaning of the term ''ethical'' in English, by which circumstance it has diverged semantically from the term ''moral'', and as a necessary consequence, ''unethical'' from ''immoral''. |
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Revision as of 19:48, 8 November 2022
English
Etymology
Adjective
unethical (comparative more unethical, superlative most unethical)
- Not morally approvable; morally bad; not ethical.
- The corporation was accused of unethical behavior for knowingly producing a product suspected of harming health.
Antonyms
Translations
not morally approvable