unscrupulous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + scrupulous.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌʌnˈskɹuːpjʊləs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: un‧scru‧pu‧lous
Adjective
[edit]unscrupulous (comparative more unscrupulous, superlative most unscrupulous)
- Without scruples; immoral.
- 1888, Rutherford B. Hayes, edited by Charles Richard Williams, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, volume IV, Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, published 1925, page 374:
- The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital.
- 2016, Doris L. Bergen, “Flashover: The Killing Centers, 1942-1944”, in War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, page 272:
- Nazism, they wrote, had turned German youth into godless, shameless, unscrupulous murderers.
- Contemptuous of what is right or honorable.
Antonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]without scruples
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contemptuous of what is right or honourable
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