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unscrupulous

Adjective

Meaning

Not scrupulous; unprincipled.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. Rutherford B. Hayes

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users. Mike Fitzpatrick

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. Ambrose Bierce

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. Desiderius Erasmus

Liberty in the most literal sense is the negation of law for law is restraint, and the absence of restraint is anarchy. On the other hand, anarchy by destroying restraint would leave liberty the exclusive possession of the strong or the unscrupulous. Benjamin N. Cardozo

The unscrupulous succeed every time. Japanese Proverb

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