(adv.) In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality.
(adv.) According to moral rules; virtuously.
(adv.) In moral qualities; in disposition and character; as, one who physically and morally endures hardships.
(adv.) In a manner calculated to serve as the basis of action; according to the usual course of things and human judgment; according to reason and probability.
Example Sentences:
(1) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
(2) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(3) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(4) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(5) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(6) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(7) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(8) This paper discusses the relationship between the psychoanalytic concept of character and the moral considerations of 'character'.
(9) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
(10) This continuing influence of Nazi medicine raises profound questions for the epistemology and morality of medicine.
(11) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
(12) But none of those calling on Obama to act carries the moral authority of Gore, who has devoted his post-political career to building a climate movement.
(13) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
(14) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
(15) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
(16) This is a moral swamp, but it's one the Salvation Army claims to be stepping into out of charity .
(17) In what appeared to be pointed criticism of increasingly firm rhetoric from Cameron on multinational tax engineering, Carr insisted tax avoidance "cannot be about morality – there are no absolutes".
(18) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
(19) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
(20) We have a moral duty to conserve them and to educate people about their habitat, health and the threats they face."
Wickedness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness.
(n.) A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity.
Example Sentences:
(1) But just as Oliver Stone has managed to make a boring sequel to Wall Street, despite the real Wall Street's enthralling and nigh-on-cinematic recent wickedness (the inner Freudian torment of boring Shia LaBoeuf's boring character is apparently more interesting to Stone – once the great purveyor of conspiracy theories – than the near-collapse of capitalism), so the makers of the upcoming films about Facebook have missed an obvious trick with their movies.
(2) Tony Abbott has recently delivered an explicit warning that the Daesh death cult is “coming for us”, however, Turnbull argued it was important not to get sucked into the Isis strategy “and ourselves become amplifiers of their wickedness and significance”.
(3) It is towards an anti-government fervour that recalls the militia movement of the 1990s, convinced that every Washington move – even a plan to expand healthcare – is motivated by wickedness and constitutes a step towards tyranny.
(4) Less welcome was Professor Griff's 1989 interview with the Washington Times where he condemned Jews as responsible for 'the majority of the wickedness that goes on across the globe'.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Video: Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn resigns, taking responsibility for the German carmaker’s rigging of US emissions tests Yet it would be simplistic to blame the wickedness of the industry and to suppose that the consumers involved were entirely innocent idealists, cruelly misled by unscrupulous marketeers.
(6) I know we are supposed to present them as extreme wickedness but they don’t appear like that to lots of Labour voters who thought this was mainstream Labour policy.
(7) There is a certain perverse charm to what appears to be Sepp’s final mission: exposing the weaknesses and wickedness of everyone who has profited from his regime down the decades.
(8) Maybe that’s because Laurie’s Roper has been enter taining us for so long with his cool, his wit, his urbanity and his sheer wickedness that we don’t want to let him go.
(9) They lament western wickedness with the reliability of professional mourners.
(10) Before tragedy strikes, we must all take the initiative and talk to these families, listen to their problems but, ultimately, we must take proactive steps to help them before "hate" and "wickedness" take a hold.
(11) We now know the banks' tricks involved not just dubious wizardry but a measure of wickedness too.
(12) Alice Morgan – said patricidal psychopath, played with delicious wickedness by Ruth Wilson – is one of TV's most unusual sidekicks.
(13) When I asked my friend the professor of gender studies about all this stuff some time ago (I know this sounds like the overture to a joke, but it isn't), I was semi-secretly hoping for a jeremiad on the wickedness of princess-mania, and tips on how she'd saved her daughters from it.Actually, she said, one of hers had that obsession too, for a bit – but that other obsessions came along to supplant them.
(14) This warning about the lure of wickedness reveals how Prince’s vision of the battle between good and evil was much darker than Burton’s take.
(15) When the full extent of his wickedness was revealed, we put him in a box marked "monster".
(16) Just as some were putting the wickedness of Savile and his ilk in a box marked “long ago”, Rochdale broke and the abuse of children in care was revealed.
(17) Under the amendment the same buildings, the same canteen, the same umbrella stands, the same courses, the same bitching about Orbán and his wickedness can continue, and students can get a qualification recognised in Europe .
(18) Stories such as the prime minister’s surprisingly resilient support for the charity, the lobbying of a Conservative party co-treasurer – James Lupton – and the embedding of two civil servants to help restructure the organisation somehow became examples of the wickedness that had taken root in the charity.
(19) What many people seem to want is to be confirmed in their view that all of this is down to the personal wickedness of a single individual; arrest Blair, clap him in irons at The Hague, and everything will return to a state of primal, unsullied innocence.
(20) The virtue of Israel and the wickedness of her enemies are recurring themes in his work."