Dictionary

unscrupulous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˌʌnˈskɹuːpjʊləs/

Etymology

From un- + scrupulous.

Meanings

1. Without scruples; immoral.
   • 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:
   • 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, published 1925, page 374:
2. Contemptuous of what is right or honorable.

Forms

Antonyms

scrupulous · upstanding · ethical

Deriveds

unscrupulously · unscrupulousness

Translations (54)

mi kōroiroii (without scruples) · ru беспринци́пный (without scruples) · bg безскрупулен (without scruples) · nl gewetenloos (without scruples) · is samviskulaus (without scruples) · tr ahlaksız (without scruples) · cs bezcharakterní (contemptuous of what is right or honourable) · cs bezohledný (without scruples) · cmn 肆無忌憚 /肆无忌惮 (without scruples) · sv skrupelfri (without scruples) · de skrupellos (without scruples) · et siivutu (without scruples) · tr terbiyesiz (without scruples) · fr sans scrupule (without scruples) · et sündsusetu (contemptuous of what is right or honourable) · mk беспри́нципен (without scruples) · nl onscrupuleus (without scruples) · de bedenkenlos (without scruples) · fi häikäilemätön (contemptuous of what is right or honourable) · ga gan scrupall (without scruples) · de gewissenlos (without scruples) · mk непринципие́лен (without scruples) · az vicdansız (without scruples) · mk бессо́весен (without scruples) · nb skruppelløs (without scruples) · cmn 不擇手段的 /不择手段的 (contemptuous of what is right or honourable) · pt inescrupuloso (without scruples) · nn skruppellaus (contemptuous of what is right or honourable) · de rücksichtslos (without scruples) · es desaprensivo (contemptuous of what is right or honourable) · mk несо́весен (without scruples) · nb skruppelløs (contemptuous of what is right or honourable) · tr vicdansız (without scruples) · es inescrupuloso (without scruples) · it senza scrupoli (without scruples) · de hemmungslos (without scruples) · mi kōroiroi (contemptuous of what is right or honourable) · mk бескрупуло́зен (without scruples) · fr peu scrupuleux (without scruples) · pl bez skrupułów (without scruples) · cs bezskrupulózní (without scruples) · hu gátlástalan (contemptuous of what is right or honourable) · de unnachsichtig (without scruples) · de skrupellos (contemptuous of what is right or honourable) · nn skruppellaus (without scruples) · fi häikäilemätön (without scruples) · fr inscrupuleux (without scruples) · da skrupelløs (without scruples) · hu lelkiismeretlen (contemptuous of what is right or honourable) · gl sen escrúpulos (without scruples) · az insafsız (without scruples) · el αδίστακτος (contemptuous of what is right or honourable) · ug ۋىجدانسىز (without scruples) · hu lelkiismeretlen (without scruples)