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Definition: Unethical |
UnethicalAdjective1. Not conforming to approved standards of social or professional behavior; "unethical business practices". 2. Not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Language | We therefore are resolved to avoid unlawful or -practices. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: UnethicalSynonyms: base (adj), dishonorable (adj), dishonourable (adj), immoral (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: ethical (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unethical |
| English words defined with "unethical": accomplice ♦ bucket shop ♦ Confederate ♦ dirt ball, dirty ♦ financier ♦ high finance ♦ insect ♦ louse ♦ pettifogger ♦ shyster, sordid ♦ unethically ♦ worm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unethical": computer ethics. (references) |
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Screenplays | Hah! That would be irresponsible and unethical. I would never, ever (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders) | |
Clever | It's only unethical if you get caught. (references; author: unknown) | |
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Mikhail A. Bakunin | To him (the revolutionist) whatever aids the triumph of the revolution is ethical; all that which hinders it is unethical and criminal. |
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Health | Because methylprednisolone reduces disability, clinical trials can no longer use placebo controls because it would be unethical to withhold the drug from patients. (references) | |
Business | Although these types of marketing methods have made an important contribution to the expansion of the market in such a short period time, Korean consumers have developed a negative perception that the multi-level network sales approach is somewhat immoral or unethical since it tends to lure people into non-labor earnings. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Benin | A nongovernmental media ethics commission (ODEM) was established in 1999, and it continued to censure some journalists for unethical conduct during the year, as well as commending some journalists for adherence to the standards of their profession. (references) |
Economic History | Czech Rep | Non-transparent or unethical practices have also been alleged in connection with some privatizations. (references) |
Tanzania | In addition, while joint venture partners can assist U.S. firms, there have been occasional problems in the past stemming from unethical business practices by the local partner. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tanzania | In 2000 the Minister of Justice acknowledged in public statements that problems within the judiciary include unwarranted delays in the hearing of cases, falsified recording of evidence in court records, bribery, improper use or failure to use bail, and unethical behavior on the part of magistrates. (references) |
Travel | Bolivia | Regretfully, business practices in Bolivia in both the governmental and local business sectors can involve different sets of standards than are common in the United States and some that might be illegal or unethical under U.S. law. (references) |
Worker Rights | Honduras | During the year the Ministry of Labor improved its administrative procedures to reduce unethical behavior of its officials regarding union organizing. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unethical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.92% of the time. "Unethical" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.92% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 93 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "unethical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不"德 (IMMORAL). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | peu éthique, immoral, illicite (unlawful), contraire l'éthique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unmoralisch (immoral, immorally, loose, loosely), unethisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μη συνεπήσ προσ την επιστημονικήν συνήθειαν, ανέντιμοσ (crooked, dishonest), αήθησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | etikátlan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | senza scrupoli (machiavellians, unscrupulous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ethicalunay неэтичный. (various references) neetički. (various references) poco ético. (various references) omoralisk (immoral, loose), oetisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ambigua, ambiguum. (various references) |
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"Unethical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anethical, unethecal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unethical" (pronounced une"thikul) |
| 6 | -e" th i k u l | ethical. |
| 4 | -i k u l | acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, categorical, cervical, chronological, classical, comical, conical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, dermatological, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, gynecological, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, inimical, ironical, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, mechanical, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, methodological, metrical, morphological, musical, mystical, mythological, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, ontological, optical, ornithological, paradoxical, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physical, physiological, popsicle, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, puritanical, rabbinical, radiological, rhetorical, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, whimsical, zoological. |
| 3 | -k u l | aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: ethnical. | |
-2 letters: alunite, cauline, cutline, ethical, linecut, lunatic, tunicae, tunicle, unlatch, unteach. | |
-3 letters: acetin, aculei, atelic, auntie, canthi, cantle, catlin, centai, cental, chaine, chalet, chaunt, chital, client, cuneal, eluant, enatic, entail, ethnic, halite, hantle, heliac, incult, inhale, inhaul, inlace, lacune, lancet, launce, launch, lectin, lentic, leucin, lichen, lucent, luetic, lunate, lutein, nautch, nuchae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: unathletic. | |
+2 letters: hallucinate, untechnical. | |
+3 letters: hallucinated, hallucinates, multichannel, uncharitable, unhysterical, unrhetorical. | |
+4 letters: authentically, hermeneutical, multibranched, multichannels, unchlorinated, untheoretical. | |
+5 letters: unemphatically, unhysterically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 65 74 68 69 63 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. . - .... .. -.-. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100101 01110100 01101000 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n e t h i c a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0065 0074 0068 0069 0063 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558071867475696778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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