value-laden

comparative more value-laden · superlative most value-laden

1. Involving moral evaluations of some kind.

   "Their claim is that since theories reflect cultural, historical, and social preferences, they are value-laden."

   2003 April 30, John Z. Sadler, Descriptions and Prescriptions: Values, Mental Disorders, and the DSMs, JHU Press

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   "The term 'crisis' is contested by some Western scholars, who would prefer the less value-laden term 'disequilibrium'."

   2002, John L. H. Keep, A History of the Soviet Union, 1945-1991: Last of the Empires, Oxford University Press