unscrupulous

CEFRC1

/ˌʌnˈskɹuːpjʊləs/

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What percentage of all taxi drivers make unscrupulous detours, do you think?
Nazism, they wrote, had turned German youth into godless, shameless, unscrupulous murderers.
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital.

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The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital.
1888, Rutherford B. Hayes, edited by Charles Richard Williams, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, volume IV, Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, publishe...
Nazism, they wrote, had turned German youth into godless, shameless, unscrupulous murderers.
2016, Doris L. Bergen, “Flashover: The Killing Centers, 1942-1944”, in War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, page 272

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From un- + scrupulous.