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Etymology

From Middle English morali, moralli, morally, equivalent to moral +‎ -ly.^[1]

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɹəli/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒɹəli/
(New York City) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹəli/
Audio (US): (file)
Hyphenation: mor‧al‧ly

Adverb

morally (comparative more morally, superlative most morally)

In terms of morals or ethics.
Morally, it is a difficult issue to deal with.
- 2024 March 2, Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, quoting Dirk Van de Put, “Western groups stay put in Russia as war fatigue dulls outcry”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:
  There is no pressure to leave, Mondelez chief executive Dirk Van de Put admitted last week, claiming that investors did not “morally care” whether companies such as the Chicago-based chocolate maker did business in Russia.
- 2024 December 26, Eira May, “The ghost jobs haunting your career search”, in Stack Overflow‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 December 2024:
  Seven in 10 of the hiring managers responsible for posting a ghost job this year “believe posting fake jobs is morally acceptable.”
In keeping of requirements of morality.
Synonyms: decently, modestly, righteously; see also Thesaurus:virtuously

to behave morally
To all intents and purposes; practically.
(mathematics) Used to clarify that a statement is made in analogy, and every detail may not be strictly true.
In the short exact sequence $0\xrightarrow {q} A\xrightarrow {r} B\xrightarrow {s} C\xrightarrow {t} 0$ , $B$ is morally $A\times C$ , even if in reality the sequence may fail to split.
- 2011, Mark Gross, Bernd Siebert, “From Real Affine Geometry to Complex Geometry”, in Annals of Mathematics‎^[2], page 1304:
  The data governing the deformations of $X$ then consist of what we call a structure, which is a collection of slabs and walls: these are codimension-one polyhedral subsets of $B$ , contained locally in affine hyperplanes, along with some attached data of a ring automorphism which is used in our gluing construction. This structure has an important tropical interpretation: morally, a structure can be viewed as a union of tropical trees in ${\check {B}}$ with leaves on $\Delta$ .