Improve your vocabulary by Quiz

Use unethical in a sentence

Definition of unethical:

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

Sentence Examples:

Journalists hunting information have been known to do almost every single unethical thing that hackers have ever done.

There has been no evidence adduced that any crime or act of even unethical conduct was committed.

It must be made unethical and unprofessional for physician and optician alike to prescribe in the dark.

To inflict a punishment for any conduct or thought to which the memory does not bear evidence, nor conscience furnish assent, nor the whole realm of conscious experience reveal a trace, is both unethical and in violation of the deepest laws of being.

I am nightly hurled into an unethical medley of extremes.

No, that would be unethical and the strongest part of a psi's training was a fine code of ethics.

From that point of view we must refuse to give more than a guarded assent to the "opinion that prayer appeared in the religion of the lower culture, but that in this its earlier stage it was unethical".

Or the question is put thus: what would you say to a son, who refuses to enter into and have part in the business of his father which he believes to be unethical, though the father and the rest of the world view it as wholly normal and legitimate?

The question having been decided in the negative, the speaker who had maintained the unethical side of the question explained that he had done this only because it was required of him, his convictions and sympathies being wholly on the other side.

It seems very underhanded and strange, to say the least, decidedly unethical, not to say suspicious on your part.

Returning to home problems, we have been shocked by many notorious examples of injuries done our citizens by persons or groups who have been living off their neighbors by the use of methods either unethical or criminal.

Our chief concern should here be to prevent the resistance from infecting ourselves and provoking unethical reactions.

It is in the struggle between motives that the idea presses in and seeks to make the decision; the empirical mixture of ethical and unethical feelings, sympathy and malice, self-confidence and presumption, gives no help towards a conclusion.