morally dubious
Frequency: 6.07.4 per million words
doubtful from a moral standpoint
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Examples (10)
- The company was criticized for its morally dubious accounting practices.
- He made a fortune through morally dubious business deals.
- The politician's decision to accept the large donation was considered morally dubious.
- She felt uncomfortable with the morally dubious nature of her work.
- The experiment was halted because of its morally dubious methods.
- It's a novel about a character with a morally dubious past seeking redemption.
- Some people find the act of cloning animals to be morally dubious.
- While his actions were not technically illegal, they were certainly morally dubious.
- The journalist used morally dubious tactics to get the story.
- That business proposition sounds a bit morally dubious to me.