Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: morally
IPA transcription: [m'ɔɹəli]
Pronunciations of morally
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r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: morally
    Meaning: with respect to moral principles; "morally unjustified"
Usage examples
  • The fittest morally?
  • Nor can it be said that he was morally brave.
  • She must take her departure, or I shall go to pieces, morally and physically.
  • What then is it which justifies virtue or the morally good disposition, in making such lofty claims?
  • Only the need of a dissemination of all that is best, intellectually and morally, through the whole people.
  • Konstantin Levin felt himself morally pinned against a wall, and so he got hot, and unconsciously blurted out the chief cause of his indifference to public business.
  • The story as told is not merely an illustration of the truth that righteousness brings its just reward, but of the profounder principle that it is the morally fit who survive.
  • But I cannot consent to argue the point as if society had no means of bringing its weaker members up to its ordinary standard of rational conduct, except waiting till they do something irrational, and then punishing them, legally or morally, for it.
  • And, indeed, this is the odd thing that is continually happening: there are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible, to be, so to speak, a light to their neighbours simply in order to show them that it is possible to live morally and rationally in this world.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Watchmen, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Han dynasty, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction, License CC BY-SA 4.0