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noun

ethic

CEFR B2

the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group

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Six example sentences with ethic, each labelled with its topic.

  • Aristotle asks where an ethic comes from, and answers that habit shapes character long before argument ever does.

    Philosophy

  • The hospital's ethic of full disclosure means a doctor tells the family about the error before the family asks.

    Medicine

  • A workplace ethic that nobody writes down still governs who answers email at midnight and who does not.

    Business

  • Leopold argued for a land ethic, extending our sense of right and wrong to soils, waters and animals.

    Environment

  • The laboratory's ethic requires that every failed experiment be recorded as carefully as every success.

    Science

  • The documentary ethic forbids staging a scene, so she waited three hours for the fishermen to return.

    Photography

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