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UNSCRUPULOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without scruples or principles
Example:
unscrupulous politicos who would be happy to sell...their country in order to gain power
Classified under:
Also:
unprincipled (lacking principles or moral scruples)
Antonym:
scrupulous (having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled)
Derivation:
unscrupulousness (the quality of unscrupulous dishonesty)