Infinitive complement

• exploit: It also may be a ploy by those cynical and unscrupulous enough to exploit children for their own purposes.

Modifies a noun

• gangmasters: Consequently, there is an opportunity for unscrupulous gangmasters to exploit their workers, and to use illegal labor.

• middleman: The system aims to eliminate unscrupulous middlemen who were the main conduits for rural exploitation by big landlords.

• salesman: But nearly a year on, unscrupulous salesmen are still up to their old tricks.

• trader: Trading Standards Officers protect the public against unscrupulous traders.

• dealer: Than unscrupulous dealers see how many would cost many.

• businessman: This time it's an environmental subplot about some unscrupulous businessmen who like exploiting places for raw materials.

Modifying Another Word

• often: He is frequently belligerent, defiant, rebellious and cunning, often unscrupulous and always irrepressible.

• sometimes: The cost-cutting media increasingly relies on these cheap, sometimes unscrupulous, local stringers.

• equally: On the other hand you find equally unscrupulous promoters selling germanium with only a few biologically useless micrograms in every dose.

• even: This often leads to drug misuse or even unscrupulous supply of out of date drugs.

• thoroughly: He was a liar from the beginning and that means, of course, that he is thoroughly unscrupulous.

• totally: Stalin was totally unscrupulous, whereas Trotsky was loyal to certain ideals which he would not betray Trotsky was considered ambitious and arrogant.