as in immoral
not guided by or showing a concern for what is right
an unscrupulous businessman manipulated them into selling their land for practically nothing
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Recent Examples of unscrupulous
The main shell is then salvaged, with the most valuable parts sold by unscrupulous vendors to repair shops and consumers, often via the Internet.
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Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
Indeed, once the former’s economic situation forces them to withdraw from hosting duties just four years before kickoff, the opportunist pulls out every unscrupulous trick in the book to thwart the rival bids from, ironically, Canada and USA.
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Jon O'Brien,
Vulture,
10 June 2026
Some unscrupulous mortgage loan originator might want to push the borrower toward FHA financing.
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Jeff Lazerson,
Oc Register,
28 May 2026
Connecticut gets a bad reputation This leads to the 1833 story of the unscrupulous Connecticut peddlers.
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Ava Berger,
NPR,
28 May 2026
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Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
Indeed, once the former’s economic situation forces them to withdraw from hosting duties just four years before kickoff, the opportunist pulls out every unscrupulous trick in the book to thwart the rival bids from, ironically, Canada and USA.
—
Jon O'Brien,
Vulture,
10 June 2026
Some unscrupulous mortgage loan originator might want to push the borrower toward FHA financing.
—
Jeff Lazerson,
Oc Register,
28 May 2026
Connecticut gets a bad reputation This leads to the 1833 story of the unscrupulous Connecticut peddlers.
—
Ava Berger,
NPR,
28 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscrupulous
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Court records show that 60-year-old Bradley Kyle Martin, of Dearborn Heights, is charged with using a computer or internet to communicate with another person to commit a crime and accosting children for immoral purposes.
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These monsters—its antitheses—constitute that part of our nature that urges us to be sensible and strong, and that inclines us to see the life drive as trivial, weak, sentimental and immoral.
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Canadian quartet Truck Violence have been sloshing together these subgenres in a ruthless manner for several years now, and their sophomore album and debut for the Flenser aims for even higher drops between those peaks and valleys.
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There was relative peace for 11 years, until a second civil war erupted in 1983, when leaders in Khartoum imposed sharia (Islamic) law and accelerated repression of the southern Christian rebels, which ultimately allowed a ruthless military officer, Omar al-Bashir, to come to power in 1989.
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In reality, leaders on both sides are corrupt and always on the edge of disaster.
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My career actually focuses on bonding and preventing taxpayers from being on the hook for the failures of bankrupt and corrupt companies.
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That doesn't enable cunning and unprincipled men to subvert the power of the people.
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Ditto his despicable aides and Cabinet members, his unprincipled sycophants and suck-ups.
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Iran coach Amir Ghalenoei blasted the treatment of his team at the FIFA World Cup, suggesting it's been unethical.
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If unethical actors can deploy custom frontier AI models to aggressively interrogate smart contracts and find hidden protocol flaws, human-only defensive audits will be rendered obsolete.
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“Unscrupulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscrupulous. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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