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# ethical

«ethical» in Mova's school dictionary: **morally right, fair and honest** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (ethical, more ethical, most ethical)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Ethical means morally right, fair and honest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ethical/#m1)

2) Ethical means about right and wrong, as in "an ethical question". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ethical/#m2)

3) Ethical shopping means buying things made fairly, without harming workers, animals or nature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ethical/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In ethics lessons pupils decide if an action is ethical: is it fair, honest, kind, and what are the consequences? Adults talk about ethical businesses, ethical banks and fair-trade chocolate. Phrases: an ethical choice, an ethical problem, ethical shopping, it's not ethical to…

### examples

- Is it ethical to keep the extra change the shop gave you? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ethical/#x1)
- The class debated an ethical question about animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ethical/#x2)
- We buy fair-trade bananas because they're more ethical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ethical/#x3)
- Copying a friend's homework isn't ethical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ethical/#x4)
- The doctor faced a hard ethical decision. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ethical/#x5)
- Our school tries to run an ethical tuck shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ethical/#x6)

### note

Adverb ethically; opposite unethical. Noun ethics. Note: ethical (right and wrong) is different from "ethnic" (about cultures and peoples).

### In the corpora

- [The ethical question should be put in one clear sentence, because clear questions lead to clear answers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/50-mock-ethics-olympiad/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ethical» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ethical/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.