scrupleless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]scrupleless (comparative more scrupleless, superlative most scrupleless)
- Without scruples; uninhibited by conscience or moral concerns.
- 1822, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 44, in Peveril of the Peak:
- Your Grace's swordsmen have had ill luck of late; and it is hard, since you always choose the best hands, and such scrupleless knaves too.
- 1914, Mary Hastings Bradley, The Palace of Darkened Windows, D. Appleton & Co., page 312:
- Almost he longed to be a scrupleless Oriental and carry her off across his saddle bow.
- 2005 April 29, “Ex-valley Man Eyes US-Mexico Border”, in Daily News of Los Angeles:
- We feel one of these untrained civilians will come face to face with a scrupleless smuggler.