unscrupulous
un·scru·pu·lous (-skro̵̅o̅′pyə ləs)
adjective
not scrupulous; not restrained by ideas of right and wrong; unprincipled
- unsculptured
unscrupulous
modif.
Antonyms
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- even: This often leads to drug misuse or even unscrupulous supply of out of date drugs.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.
It is a standing insult tosportsmen to have to play undera rule which assumes that players intend to trip, hack and push their opponents, and to behave like cads of the most unscrupulous kidney. The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
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