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as in immorality
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as in underhandedness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscrupulousness
Noun
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Now, more than two years after the Evros Thirty-eight made landfall on the islet, Little Maria is practically a household name, synonymous with refugees’ immorality and the malfeasance of NGOs and journalists.—
Lauren Markham,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025 -
At its core, moral outrage is a response to the feeling that others are acting immorally and that their immorality is destroying society.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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But Bondi is also overseeing cuts within her building, including to the Public Integrity Section that takes on corruption cases against public officials, according to multiple media reports and confirmed by a former Justice Department official.—
David Catanese,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2025
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Compassionate Release of Nick Bovis Nick Bovis, a former San Francisco restaurateur, pleaded guilty to Honest Services and Insurance Wire Fraud in a political corruption case.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Combined with his two escapes from prison, representing himself in court, the sheer number of victims and the depravity of his crimes, Bundy left behind a horrifying, but powerful, legacy that remains over 30 years after his death by electric chair on Jan. 24, 1989.—
Jessica Sager,
People.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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And a few good men and women, fighting to survive amidst all the malice and depravity.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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In a change election resulting in the closest popular vote since 2000, hypocrisy was a fatal sin.—
Rob Richie,
Twin Cities,
12 Mar. 2025
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Alex, in turn, lectures him about the hypocrisy of treating her like scum mere feet from the Statue of Liberty, which is supposed to welcome the tired, poor, huddled masses yadda yadda.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
9 Mar. 2025
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Lithgow’s character humiliates Rush’s character by forcing him to perform a humiliating act on the dementia doll, reveling in the deeply sinister debauchery.—
Simon Thompson,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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The street, famous for debauchery and celebration, wouldn’t fully reopen until their blood was pressure-washed from the pavement.—
Dakin Andone,
CNN,
7 Feb. 2025
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In this instance, a photographer snapped a picture while the plane was being moved in nighttime secrecy.—
Ramsey Qubein,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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The French military official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the blueprint for the force that is shrouded in secrecy and the Paris talks that will consider it.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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This book makes the case that there is a subtler iniquity in the sins of forgetting, in papering over, in moving in and moving on.—
Chloe Schama,
Vogue,
25 Dec. 2024
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Not always, of course; like any subset of humanity, churches are just as likely to be filled with iniquity, pettiness, and spite.—
Casey Cep,
The New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2024
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“Unscrupulousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscrupulousness. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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