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
And some unscrupulous buyers will take advantage of consumers.
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Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 17 Dec. 2025
But pregnant clients can be vulnerable to unscrupulous agents and sellers who can sense the buyer’s urgency.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025
As a result, this unscrupulous path isn’t just tolerated; it’s incentivized.
—Big Think, 12 Nov. 2025
One Bloomberg investigation found that unscrupulous brokers in South Florida had signed up thousands and thousands of people for subsidized exchange plans without their knowledge.
—Sally C. Pipes, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unscrupulous
Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 17 Dec. 2025
But pregnant clients can be vulnerable to unscrupulous agents and sellers who can sense the buyer’s urgency.
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025
As a result, this unscrupulous path isn’t just tolerated; it’s incentivized.
—Big Think, 12 Nov. 2025
One Bloomberg investigation found that unscrupulous brokers in South Florida had signed up thousands and thousands of people for subsidized exchange plans without their knowledge.
—Sally C. Pipes, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unscrupulous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscrupulous
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In addition to being immoral, CFA’s support for BDS likely violates state law, AB 2844, which prohibits California from contracting with entities that engage in discrimination, including against Jews or Israelis.—
Mark Pinkert,
Oc Register,
23 Dec. 2025
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The film follows the deliciously immoral, widowed Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale), who maneuvers, deceives and seduces her way through London and across her relatives' country estates in an effort to find a wealthy husband for herself and her daughter, Frederica (Morfydd Clark).—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
29 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The Bills are ruthless in the red zone, and don’t have much need for either a kicker or punter, but Prater and Mitch Wishnowsky have both had solid seasons.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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Our federally dependent market must endure three more years of a ruthless and petty federal administration with a national mandate to cut spending.—
Torrey Snow,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Rooting out corrupt generals and criminal networks could take months, or even years.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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Certainly, part of the way to improve Venezuela and to improve the Western Hemisphere and improve the lives of Americans is to get their very corrupt 25 years in decline, oil industry back going again.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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In the past, that’s opened small businesses to frivolous lawsuits filed by unprincipled lawyers that file massive lawsuits and offer quick settlements.—
Erica Goldstein,
Boston Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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Rule by ‘ambitious, and unprincipled men’ Partisanship is the primary problem for the American republic, according to Washington.—
Robert A. Strong,
The Conversation,
8 Sep. 2025
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And this of course can lead to mistakes and even unethical results.—
Kevin Kruse,
Forbes.com,
17 Jan. 2026
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That solicitation, the teachers argue, resulted in complaints of unethical conduct filed against them by their employers.—
Clark Kauffman,
Des Moines Register,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Unscrupulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscrupulous. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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