Definition of UNETHICAL

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The five-member ethics board considered Witenberg’s complaint of unethical behavior against 5th Ward Ald. — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, "New Evanston lead attorney is also part of Open Meetings Act violation probe by attorney general," 27 June 2018 In experiments, subjects were shown faces hundreds of times and asked to judge whether each was threatening; similarly, subjects were shown research proposals and asked to judge whether each was unethical. — Kevin Lewis, BostonGlobe.com, "Looking for negative signals," 6 July 2018 In the book, Comey likens Trump to a mafia boss, and calls him ‘‘unethical and untethered to truth.’’ Comey was fired by Trump in May 2017. — BostonGlobe.com, "James Comey is in Boston to promote his new book," 29 Apr. 2018 In addition, the White House Counsel's Office is examining allegations of unethical behavior, among them Pruitt's decision to rent part of a Capitol Hill condo for $50 a night from the lobbyist and her husband, who had business before the agency. — Author: Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, "EPA’s Pruitt admits role in aide’s pay raise but calls attacks on him politically motivated," 27 Apr. 2018 National art museum groups have called it unethical to sell art and use the proceeds for anything other than the museum or its collection. — Susan Snyder, Philly.com, "La Salle president defends plans to sell art," 11 Jan. 2018 The project follows an interlocked series of scandals around fake news, user privacy, and the tactics digital media companies use to retain user attention, which some critics have called unethical. — David Z. Morris, Fortune, "Facebook Is Developing a Time-Management Tool for Users," 23 June 2018 Seems the president is interested not in the daily headlines about Pruitt’s unethical behavior, but in those marking his never-ending mission to dismantle environmental protections. — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, "It’s Time for Your Daily Scott Pruitt Scandal Report," 15 June 2018 In other words, art may be sold to acquire other art, but selling art to fix the plumbing or renovate a library is considered unethical and worthy of sanctions. — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, "Sanctions imposed on La Salle for sale of art," 25 May 2018

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