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Definition of unethical:

  • (adjective) not conforming to approved standards of social or professional behavior
  • (adjective) not adhering to ethical or moral principles;

Sentence Examples:

The law is artificial and not founded on any general attempt to prohibit what is unethical, but simply to prevent what is immediately dangerous to life, limb and property.

It will be a bitter comment on the sincerity of the 'ethical culture movement' to make so unethical a judgment in so grave a case as this.

I thought this was unethical, because it implied that other chickens were grown with hormones.

This view of the Atonement is unethical, and, in my judgment and that of many others, has wrought a good deal of mischief in the past and bewilderment in the present.

The other type of land shark is composed of men who act within the law, but, for their own gain, apply methods which are mildly called "sharp" or "unethical."

If they have also passed a law that says cheating at gambling is illegal, the law is unethical, not the cheating.

Of course, this is not a "positive moral" result for the unethical individual who must be restrained by fear of legal consequences, but we do not worry about the individual when society gains.

Prayer obviously does appear in the religion of the lower culture, but to say that it there is unethical is to make a statement which requires defining.

Now, are we to reach a deeper view of redemption, by turning away from the deepest ethical fact to the unethical?

A lower enjoyment (for example, sensual pleasure) preferred to a more highly esteemed one (for example, health) rates as unethical, as does welfare preferred to freedom.

No matter how fine a doctor a lady's husband is she is never permitted to mention it to her friends, for this is called "unethical."

I also feel strongly that it was unethical to ask anyone to do anything that I was not willing or able to do myself.

If you knew of a probable purchaser for my property you have just taken a most unethical advantage of me.

National religion could never reach these heights; it is bound down to the average level, it is always open to unethical movements and ideas.

Some of them are involved in all manner of criminal activities, others are simply unethical in the extreme.

She even found herself pondering over it, telling herself that it was unethical to seize this lone chance that offered itself only to her.

It has been so extended as to lead to what one may term an unethical use of literature and history.

This struggle was the result of the ambition of young Frederick, a strong and unethical king of Prussia.

It is not surprising therefore that at times this rivalry should have assumed unethical if not actually illegal forms.

On the contrary, if I am aware of what is being planned, I can prevent others from doing something illegal and unethical.

Intimate spiritual relations with a few will also counteract the unethical habit of labeling those with whom we come into casual contact according to the special functions they happen to exercise.

It is strictly unethical for a physician to prescribe or administer a remedy the formula of which he does not thoroughly understand.

And, if in spite of all, an "accident" happens, what is the mental state of the woman who calls at the "unethical" practitioner's office?

It could not possibly be important if I followed up a moral (or immoral) victory with what would then be an ethical (or unethical) act.

I'll tear all the others down before they even suspect there's an unethical man loose in their society.

Weaker competitors were forced out of business, often by means not only unethical but severe and brutal.

A medical man who educates people by correspondence is considered unethical and is severely censured by the ethical brethren.

This is certainly a danger, but the most serious effect of corporal punishment is that it has established an unethical morality as its result.