Sentence examples for borderline unethical from inspiring English sources
The publication of these sessions may seem borderline unethical, but Middlebrook treads carefully, seemingly agreeing with Orne's assertion that "Anne herself would have wanted to share that process".
As one person who had worked closely with Volkswagen told me, the company "is fuelled by intimidation at every level, which creates a borderline, or sometimes over the borderline, unethical culture".
She called the paper's rules about the financial involvement that freelance writers can have with other clients "borderline unethical" because The Times wants freelancers to function like staffers without the pay or benefits.
Monica Inzer, the dean of admission at Hamilton College in upstate New York, called the practice "borderline unethical," saying it had the effect of recruiting students from other colleges.
The "honest mistake" and the "borderline unethical" rules mentioned by two former Times freelance writers made me nostalgic for the old days, when there was a brighter line between right and wrong.
Virginia Postrel, a writer and former Times columnist who was recruited for the "Prototype" column before Tripsas got it, thinks the paper's rules are unfair to writers and are themselves "borderline unethical".
Some business even take this to a borderline-unethical extreme, increasing a product's price so that a big, appealing, limited-time deal reduces its price to normal levels.
It should go without saying that paying for likes or followers is usually seen as a shallow, borderline-unethical thing to do by most Instagram users.
Q: One of my clients is doing some international business that's borderline illegal and definitely unethical.
Borderline persons have full, or near-full moral status, which makes it unethical to use borderline persons in what DeGrazia calls "neural chimeric research," research intended to lead to the growth of human neurons in the subjects' brains (DeGrazia 2007, 325).
The press seems to be in a hurried search for some clearly marked borderline between that which is unethical/reprehensible/unattractive and that which is truly felonious.
