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unscrupulous

Use the adjective unscrupulous to describe someone who behaves in a dishonest or unethical way.

Unscrupulous behavior is the unfortunate resort of many ambitious people — it’s the immoral stuff they do to make success more attainable. When you sell someone bad loans, when you hack into your competition's accounts, when you read your roommate's mail for signs of an opportunity with his girlfriend, you're being unscrupulous.

DEFINITIONS OF: unscrupulous

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adj without scruples or principles

unscrupulous politicos who would be happy to sell...their country in order to gain power”
Synonyms
unprincipled
lacking principles or moral scruples
Antonyms:
scrupulous
having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled
principled
based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality
religious
extremely scrupulous and conscientious
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