unscrupulous

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ scrupulous.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌʌnˈskɹuːpjʊləs/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: un‧scru‧pu‧lous

Adjective

unscrupulous (comparative more unscrupulous, superlative most unscrupulous)

  1. 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.
  2. Contemptuous of what is right or honorable.

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