ethics

In a sentence

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

• Her ethics would not let her sign the discharge form while the patient still had nowhere safe to sleep.

  Medicine

• He argued that ethics, not fear of punishment, is what keeps most people honest when nobody is watching.

  Philosophy

• Her ethics cost the firm a large contract, because she would not certify timber whose origin nobody could trace.

  Business

• His ethics would not let him take the case, since the client wanted witnesses coached rather than prepared.

  Law

• The founder's ethics stopped her from selling user data even when the buyer offered enough to cover payroll for a year.

  Startups

• Her ethics kept her from dropping the two results that spoiled the graph, and the paper was better for it.

  Science

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains ethics. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• demonstrate
• similarity
• accuracy
• integrity
• confirm
• vehicle
• assign
• nuclear
• economics
• exposed
• philosophy
• motivation