Etymology
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un- + scrupulous
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˌʌnˈskɹuːpjʊləs/
- Hyphenation: un‧scru‧pu‧lous
Adjective
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unscrupulous (comparative more unscrupulous, superlative most unscrupulous)
- Without scruples; immoral.
1888, Rutherford B. Hayes, edited by Charles Richard Williams, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, volume IV, Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, published 1925, page 374:The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital.
2016, Doris L. Bergen, “Flashover: The Killing Centers, 1942-1944”, in War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, page 272:Nazism, they wrote, had turned German youth into godless, shameless, unscrupulous murderers.
- Contemptuous of what is right or honorable.
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Translations
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without scruples
- Azerbaijani: vicdansız (az), insafsız (az)
- Bulgarian: безскрупулен (bg) (bezskrupulen)
- Czech: bezskrupulózní (cs), bezohledný (cs)
- Danish: skrupelløs
- Dutch: onscrupuleus
- Finnish: häikäilemätön (fi)
- French: inscrupuleux (fr), peu scrupuleux, sans scrupule
- Galician: sen escrúpulos
- German: skrupellos (de), rücksichtslos, gewissenlos, hemmungslos, bedenkenlos, unnachsichtig
- Hungarian: lelkiismeretlen (hu)
- Icelandic: samviskulaus
- Irish: gan scrupall
- Macedonian: несо́весен (nesóvesen), бессо́весен (bessóvesen), непринципие́лен (neprincipiélen), беспри́нципен (bespríncipen), бескрупуло́зен (beskrupulózen)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skruppelløs
- Nynorsk: skruppellaus
- Polish: bez skrupułów
- Portuguese: inescrupuloso (pt)
- Russian: беспринци́пный (ru) (besprincípnyj)
- Spanish: inescrupuloso
- Swedish: skrupelfri (sv)
- Turkish: ahlaksız (tr), terbiyesiz (tr), vicdansız (tr)
- Uyghur: ۋىجدانسىز (wijdansiz)
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contemptuous of what is right or honourable