Definitions for ethics

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Spelling: [eth-iks]

IPA: /ˈɛθ ɪks/

Ethics is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in ethics (cehist).

Definitions for ethics

noun

1. (used with a singular or plural verb) a system of moral principles:
2. (used with a plural verb) the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.:
3. (used with a plural verb) moral principles, as of an individual:
4. (used with a singular verb) that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions. Compare axiological ethics, deontological ethics.
5. the body of moral principles or values governing or distinctive of a particular culture or group:
6. a complex of moral precepts held or rules of conduct followed by an individual:

Origin of ethics

1400-50; late Middle English ethic + -s³, modeled on Greek tà ēthiká, neuter plural

Examples for ethics

What was the stanchest code of ethics but a trunk with a series of false bottoms?

And I pause, true to the ethics of journalism; it's my duty not to leave just yet.

Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone.

A month before the ethics Committee vote that McConnell boasts about today, he and Dole were publicly defending Packwood.

Fridays there is ethics and law of war training and instruction.

She knows the ethics behind this, and she wants those ethics to be visible on a broad scale.

By stepping down, the embattled McCaffery preempted an ethics investigation that could have cost him his state pension.

In short, ethics has been more or less confounded with sexuality.

But to call this ethics 'philanthropy' is the strangest of mistakes.

“These decisions should not be made in private, but with an ethics committee,” he said.