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Example sentences for "morally"

Lexicographically close words:
moralize; moralized; moralizes; moralizing; morall; morals; morass; morasses; moratorium; morays
  1. That miserable journey scarcely lasted four hours; but when it ended, Wyverne was as much morally changed as he might have been, physically, by a long wasting sickness.

  2. Both morally and physically he was wonderfully indolent, and, doing most things well, rarely attempted anything involving the slightest exertion.

  3. The manner in which it was carried was not only morally scandalous; it also entirely vitiated it as a work of statesmanship.

  4. While, however, the Irish policy of Pitt appears to be both morally and politically deserving of almost unmitigated condemnation, I cannot agree with those who believe that the arrangement of 1782 could have been permanent.

  5. I don't think much of this lady--morally speaking, you will understand.

  6. Morally as well as physically, there were moments, at this period of their lives, when even her own father hardly recognized his daughter of former days.

  7. On the other hand, it cannot be denied that my reformation was, morally speaking, far from being complete.

  8. There is a limit, morally as well as physically, to our capacity for endurance.

  9. And yet no madman was fitter for restraint, or less responsible morally for his own actions, than I was at that moment.

  10. I was morally sure of Drysdale's guilt, but I had no legal evidence which was sufficient to convict him in case he should maintain his innocence.

  11. At the same time, she seemed to me to be morally deteriorating, as people who grab and take things they oughtn't to have always do deteriorate.

  12. I had left the house morally certain that Arthur Gideon had murdered (or anyhow manslaughtered) Oliver Hobart.

  13. I have never had this experience, but I assume that it is morally unwholesome.

  14. Even the most spiteful and morally unkindest little girl will shudder away while her brother tears the wings off a fly or the legs off a frog, or impales a worm on a hook.

  15. It was found that they had only been loyal to the bidding of their chiefs, and were not morally culpable, whilst the action of the late Governor of Ponapé met with general reprobation.

  16. I made up my mind to win economic independence and to keep morally straight at any sacrifice.

  17. I saw that no man could have them in these days, living as we live, unless he was economically independent and morally straight.

  18. It is not morally true, that we are bound to establish in every country that form of religion which in OUR minds is most agreeable to truth, and conduces most to the eternal happiness of mankind.

  19. The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes: and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false.

  20. We are therefore the true sovereign; and the prince, the head of the Executive, is no more than an organ of government, morally less in authority than ourselves, who are the true source of government.

  21. A testimony, therefore, or sentence against a criminal, which materially is a reproach, and morally would be such in a private mouth, is not yet formally so according to the intent of this rule.

  22. Corresponding to them are the sleepless activities of morally unawakened men.

  23. Hence the rabbinical theory, already noticed, that it was through neglect of these expiations to the God of Sin that the morally spotless Job came under the power of his plagues.

  24. If man is morally so weak he should be lowly in mind also.

  25. Uz in the one case and the wilderness in the other mean morally the same, the region ruled over by Azazel.

  26. Yet it is hardly doubtful that the worship of Nyang began in an era when he was by no means considered morally baser than Zamhor.

  27. We wish to know whether you believe that man fell from a state of purity, and became morally depraved by the fall.

  28. Rachel and Bilhah: The tea-table talk of Jacob and Rachel, about the act of Jacob in seducing their maid-servant Bilhah, must be morally repulsive to all only Bible believers.

  29. Bad precepts and bad examples are both very contagious in a morally undeveloped and unenlightened age; and their pernicious effects can not be wholly counteracted or prevented by any number of precepts of an opposite character.

  30. Second, the Greeks without our Bible were both morally and intellectually superior to any Christian nation.

  31. The plea is sometimes urged that it was morally necessary for the original progenitors of the race to possess the power and liability to sin, in order to make them free agents.

  32. It is useless, and labor comparatively lost, for a book or a moral teacher to inculcate good precepts, while it is known they are morally capable of teaching or preaching bad ones.

  33. The mallet morally teaches to correct irregularities, and to reduce man to a proper level; so that by quiet deportment, he may, in the school of discipline, learn to be content.

  34. He was unshaken in his resolution not to accede to the projected alliance, and, when a will morally severe conceives resolutions of this sort, they usually stand the hardest tests.

  35. It is impossible to bring up youth morally without religion.

  36. It would be just as possible to build a house in the air, as to train up a child morally without a religious belief, without being convinced of the existence of a holy and just God.

  37. How morally naked and poor he stands before us!

  38. Man is morally and religiously free; and from this false liberalism the tyranny of plutocracy and the slavery of the poor has been developed.

  39. The longer I studied him the more palpable became his disguise to my eyes; and I am now morally convinced that my suspicions are well founded.

  40. If there have been moments when I have doubted this, I am now morally certain that he is dead.

  41. When I telephoned to you I was morally certain of the approaching arrest.

  42. I was feeling morally bruised, sore all over, when, one day, Don Rafael de Villarel sent in his card.

  43. The mere fact was repugnant to me, morally revolting; so that I should have liked to rush at him and throw him out into the street.

  44. When she dropped them she had the look of one morally crushed.

  45. And the one we have traced is both morally sufficient and in harmony with what we know to have been the course of events.

  46. In such a morally blind, deaf and dead-hearted world Isaiah's faith was indeed "to consume itself unreflected like the sepulchral lamp.

  47. The morally rash and the morally timid are equal fathers of lies.

  48. To sit in judgment morally ought to be opposed to our taste!

  49. Should they prove threatening--strong in the determination which morally separates me from you--I will not leave you till I see the end of your perils.

  50. It was the plurality of deities, as much as anything, which made heathenism morally worthless.

  51. He who has the faith is morally sane; he has that in him which is inconsistent with such wickedness and irrationality.

  52. Having morally supported the movement which upset his sovereignty, being prepared to oppose {170} any movement to restore it, we come with a bad grace to ask him to prop and protect our authority in our dominions.

  53. He was either mentally or morally unsound, or his testimony is true.

  54. Love does not necessarily imply approval, but it does imply desire that all creatures should fulfil the purpose of their existence by being morally conformed to the holy One; see Godet, in The Atonement, 339.

  55. If badness consisted only in the want of knowledge, then those who are theoretically most cultivated must also be morally the best, which no one will venture to assert.

  56. But the literary characteristics of Palestine in the first century make the hypothesis of such an effort morally impossible.

  57. All men are naturally one with Christ by physical birth, before they become morally one with him by spiritual birth.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "morally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    decently; honestly; honorably; immaculately; nobly; practically; purely; virtually


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    morally certain; morally wrong