morallyadverb
uk/ˈmɒr.əl.i/us/ˈmɔːr.əl.i/B2 based on principles that you or people in general consider to be right, honest, or acceptable:
Morally, you're right, but in practice I don't think it would work.
For a teacher to hit a child is not just morally wrong but also illegal.
She thinks she's morally superior to the rest of us.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Morality and rules of behaviour
- antisocial
- bioethics
- book
- claim
- conscience
- decency
- double standard
- morality
- moralize
- norm
- object lesson
- precept
- social contract
- spirit
- the rights and wrongs idiom
- the ways of the world idiom
- two wrongs don't make a right idiom
- value
- voice
- wrong
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