as in innocently
with purity of thought and deed
a politician who is in the habit of acting legally without behaving morally
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Recent Examples of morally
Five private chefs to fearsome dictators all over the world share their experiences of the kitchens and circumstances that led them to these sometimes dangerous and often morally compromising workplaces.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2026
Winkler plays the town’s mayor, an excessively charming, morally questionable fellow who scrambles the town’s cops and residents to keep Ulysses from fouling everything up.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
April’s Criterion Channel grid wades into the morally corrupt boardrooms of corporate thrillers.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
This is where funding for such morally controversial medical interventions belongs.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026
Jane Don’t found the premise morally repellent.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Ending birthright citizenship is morally wrong, economically stupid and increasingly unpopular.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
The cast’s sole survivor is Jessica Hecht, who pours miraculous warmth and complexity into her faintly insulting role as Colleen, the head teller, a morally upright spinster goosed by her flirtation with Sonny and the spotlight.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
Calling all Democrats evil is incredibly dangerous, not to mention morally reprehensible.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2026
Winkler plays the town’s mayor, an excessively charming, morally questionable fellow who scrambles the town’s cops and residents to keep Ulysses from fouling everything up.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
April’s Criterion Channel grid wades into the morally corrupt boardrooms of corporate thrillers.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
This is where funding for such morally controversial medical interventions belongs.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026
Jane Don’t found the premise morally repellent.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Ending birthright citizenship is morally wrong, economically stupid and increasingly unpopular.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
The cast’s sole survivor is Jessica Hecht, who pours miraculous warmth and complexity into her faintly insulting role as Colleen, the head teller, a morally upright spinster goosed by her flirtation with Sonny and the spotlight.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
Calling all Democrats evil is incredibly dangerous, not to mention morally reprehensible.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for morally
Adverb
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After innocently coming up in the scene by posting songs on Soundcloud, Slayyyter finally signed to a major label last year.—
Selena Fragassi,
SPIN,
1 Apr. 2026
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Bethenny Frankel was innocently applying a roller on her face to help with inflammation on Thursday on Instagram.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Their opposition is purely a political calculation.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Apr. 2026
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Mumford & Sons invite the camera onto the train for one of the most purely pleasurable concert docs in years.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
16 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Grace's spaceship can be spun like a centrifuge to create artificial gravity so that scientific instruments will work properly.—
Tara Haelle,
NPR,
12 Apr. 2026
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An existential crisis that can only be properly conveyed through Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
12 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Some of us virtuously recycle items that will be transported across the world to smother island nations in single-use plastic bags and water bottles, milk jugs, yogurt tubs, pet food and potato chip bags, Styrofoam meat trays, Coke bottles, Amazon mailing envelopes, and fast-food wrappers.—
Caroline Fraser,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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The glorious sweep of progress toward Roman civilization and prosperity means the end of an idyllic, virtuously rustic Golden Age.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The darkly comic crime drama pits Frances McDormand's righteously furious mom against a police force that hasn't caught her daughter's killer.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 Mar. 2026
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But O’Hara is best known for her role as Kate McCallister in Home Alone, the distracted, frantic, righteously determined mom to Macaulay Culkin’s precocious 8-year-old Kevin.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Morally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morally. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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