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
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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.—
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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).—
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But he's drawn into a deadly Colombian drama involving a new ruthless arms dealer posing as a humanitarian, Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva), and Roxana (Camila Morrone), an American businesswoman.—
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As Iranians know well from 1979, ruthless contests tend to define revolutions.—
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Which makes Shelley Joseph today’s poster gal for the corrupt double standards in the Massachusetts legal system.—
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Trump is running the most brazenly corrupt administration in modern history.—
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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.—
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Rule by ‘ambitious, and unprincipled men’ Partisanship is the primary problem for the American republic, according to Washington.—
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Palantir did not respond to a request for comment from The Hill, but the company has long pushed back on accusations that its technology is used for government surveillance or other potentially unethical objectives.—
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Advocates say giving parents the ability to throw out embryos with higher risks of conditions like Down Syndrome is unethical, but scientists inched towards this reality this year using gene-editing tools.—
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“Unscrupulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscrupulous. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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