conduct
390
3.7
- noun
- /ˈkɒndʌkt/
:
conducta
- Win or lose, ethical conduct is the most important thing.
- code of conduct
- professional conduct
- rules of conduct
Punish them for their conduct, not for their speech.
- Punish them for their conduct, not for their speech.
- That's the that's the illegal conduct on which the statute rests.
- And the rules of just conduct are liberalism's response to that need.
- So it doesn't bind the choice of life and our our conduct is still up to us.
- In other words, if this is not impeachable conduct, nothing is.
- Those are all what we would call conduct, right?
- It wasn't just the states that had an issue with German conduct of the war, though.
- They're going to be general rules of just conduct.
- There's a distinction between speech and conduct.
- He tells his aide, you witnessed repellent, childish conduct.
- Well, I think inevitably, because of what we see of other people's conduct, we see the highlight reel.
- This is what in the Buddhist terms we call it, is the ethical conduct.
- She is an expert on polling research, elections, candidates and particularly on the conduct of campaigns.
- And, and tending to our own soul and our own conduct and our own thinking, Everything flows from that.
Examples
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Did you know that we changed the rules of conduct... around the pool because of you?
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This is not the conduct becoming an officer in His Majesty's Navy, retired or not.
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That is the kind of conduct that Israel uses in this war.
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And that is not the conduct that any teacher would say, hey, he'll go far.
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Punish them for their conduct, not for their speech.
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You judge people on their conduct, not magic phrases.
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If you wish for a model by which to form your own conduct, observe me.
Fiction book (1992) -
First, I'd like to apologize for my conduct this evening.
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And people have an interest and and a right to scrutinize the conduct of their governments.
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His conduct during the meeting impressed everyone in the room.
Synonyms
∞
1.8
The way a person or animal acts toward other people in social situations
248
1.0
Polite ways of behaving toward other people, like saying please and thank you
186
1.0
A person's usual way of acting
77
4.9
The way a person behaves toward other people
3
7.6
The way a person behaves towards other people
1
2.9
A person's usual way of behaving and speaking to others
Compounds
- Formal
1
8.0
An official paper that lets a person travel safely through a dangerous area
How Proper
390
3.7
- Formal
131
4.6
Surface Forms
Etymology
Conduct comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and ducere 'to lead'. Think of it as how you 'lead' or carry yourself in a situation, which is why conduct means a person's behaviour.