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morally

[mawr-uh-lee, mor-] / ˈmɔr ə li, ˈmɒr- /


ADVERB
in a chaste manner
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If there is a shortfall, there’s about $840 billion in revenue from businesses—entities without claims to clean consciences—raised through customs and corporate income taxes that could be used as morally inert backfill.

From Slate • May 11, 2026

It doesn’t matter what you think of this morally or ethically.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

"Although he crossed without authorisation, I think he made a morally correct decision when he travelled to the US," his wife argues.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Also offering fine support are K. Todd Freeman and Michael Benjamin Washington as Willy’s neighbor Charley and his son, who illustrate by their starkly contrasting values how Willy has morally failed himself and his children.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

He was, his son remembered, morally meticulous, and though Ishmael might strive to emulate this, there was nevertheless this matter of the war— this matter of the arm he’d lost—that made such scrupulosity difficult.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson




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