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scrupleless

scrupleless adjective: without scruples; uninhibited by conscience or moral concerns.

Adjective

scrupleless (comparative more scrupleless, superlative most scrupleless)

  1. Without scruples; uninhibited by conscience or moral concerns.
    • Your Grace's swordsmen have had ill luck of late; and it is hard, since you always choose the best hands, and such scrupleless knaves too.1822, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 44, in Peveril of the Peak
    • Almost he longed to be a scrupleless Oriental and carry her off across his saddle bow.1914, Mary Hastings Bradley, The Palace of Darkened Windows, D. Appleton & Co., page 312

Forms of scrupleless

comparativemore scrupleless
superlativemost scrupleless

Origin of scrupleless

From scruple + -less.

Questions about scrupleless

What does scrupleless mean?
Scrupleless means without scruples; uninhibited by conscience or moral concerns.
What part of speech is scrupleless?
Scrupleless is an adjective.

Words near scrupleless in the dictionary

  1. scrunty
  2. scruple
  3. scruple-shop
  4. scruple-shops
  5. scrupled
  6. scrupleless
  7. scruplelessness
  8. scrupler
  9. scruplers
  10. scruples
  11. scruplesome

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