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How to use unscrupulous in a sentence

19 example sentences · adjective

Unscrupulous means without scruples; immoral. Example: “Never trust in the partly unscrupulous and partly dysfunctional state apparatus.”

Examples of unscrupulous by meaning

adjectiveWithout 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

More sentences with unscrupulous

  • Never trust in the partly unscrupulous and partly dysfunctional state apparatus.From the entry dysfunctional
  • Unscrupulous companies use this cheap trick to get customers to buy a larger package than they need.From the entry cheap trick
  • The unscrupulous landlord rebottled cheap sparkling wines as vintage champagne.From the entry rebottle
  • Certain unscrupulous men may call upon you here in your dressing-room.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pages 9–10. From the entry heart
  • In a world of unscrupulous sterility, skerricks of life down there were scuttling around vigorously.1969, Clive Barry, Fly Jamskoni, London: Faber and Faber […], →ISBN, page 54. From the entry skerrick
  • Callous, drunkardly and unscrupulous, Mrs Gamp is the archetype of the uncaring and uneducated midwife.1968, Madeleine Riley, Brought to Bed, South Brunswick; New York: A. S. Barnes and Company. From the entry drunkardly
  • In the first place, with malapropian ineptness he confused "scrupulous" with its opposite, "unscrupulous."1934, The English Journal, volume 23, page 571. From the entry malapropian
  • The lesser plebs are not unscrupulous troublemakers.2009, Erica Benner, chapter 8, in Machiavelli's Ethics. From the entry plebs
  • But "the rub" comes when unscrupulous fabricators or finishers skimp, misfabricate, or poorly process these yarns and cloths.1937, Rayon Or'ganon - Volume 8, page 109. From the entry misfabricate
  • In this way the danger threatening the population from unscrupulous speculants was averted and the prices were kept down.1915 September, “The Situation in Palestine”, in The Maccabæan: A Magazine of Jewish Life and Letters, volume 27, number 3, page 78. From the entry speculant
  • Hiring more inspectors to patrol Lujhu’s industrial areas might keep unscrupulous actors from dumping toxic chemicals into streams or other polluting acts.2018, Eryk Smith, “OPINION: Extend the HSR to Pingtung? Let’s Talk After the Election”, in The News Lens. From the entry Lujhu
  • You’d know it as a different expression, but it’s a trick unscrupulous horse dealers use to make a horse look better than it is.2013, Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Collection: Seven Complete Novels, New York, N.Y.: Forge Books, →ISBN. From the entry feague
  • The forced Hungarianization of the Romanians who lived along the Szecklers and the Hungarians, represented the basic element of an unscrupulous expansionist policy.2002, Z. Dragoș, Transylvania, late 20th century: Romanians hunted down in their own coutntry, page 10. From the entry Hungarianization
  • Certain unscrupulous individuals grow rich through the manufacture and distribution of suggestive postcards, obscene steriopticon views, and inexcusable books and typewritten pamphlets.1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200. From the entry stereopticon
  • Month after month law-suits, instigated by the grasping white man against the helpless Indian are decided in favor of the mightly and unscrupulous white.1902, The Capital, volumes 15-17, page 2. From the entry mightly
  • Destitution forces many asylum seekers to end up working for extremely low wages in catering, cleaning and construction, for example, without any protection against unscrupulous employers.2009 August 4, Rahila Gupta, The Guardian. From the entry destitution
  • Unscrupulous members offered special discounts, illegal rebates, and unauthorized underquotations to outflank their conference partners, and blamed their agents or 'invented' competition to justify these tactics.1977, Desmond Christopher Martin Platt, Business Imperialism, 1840-1930, page 148. From the entry outflank
  • Tim Joung, a 20-year-old student in New York, agrees with almost everything that so-called doomers believe: individual action makes little difference, and unscrupulous corporations are at fault for climate change.2020 September 21, Alexandra Villarreal, “Meet the doomers: why some young US voters have given up hope on climate”, in Katharine Viner…. From the entry doomer

Meaning of unscrupulous

  1. adjective Without scruples; immoral.
  2. adjective Contemptuous of what is right or honorable.

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Questions about unscrupulous in a sentence

How do you use unscrupulous in a sentence?
Unscrupulous is used as an adjective. For example: “Never trust in the partly unscrupulous and partly dysfunctional state apparatus.”
What is a short sentence with unscrupulous?
“The lesser plebs are not unscrupulous troublemakers.”
What does unscrupulous mean?
Unscrupulous means without scruples; immoral.

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