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underscrupulous

underscrupulous adjective: insufficiently scrupulous.

Adjective

underscrupulous (comparative more underscrupulous, superlative most underscrupulous)

  1. Insufficiently scrupulous.
    • […] like most of the overpaid and underscrupulous bastards Arthur knew in advertising, […]1984, Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 40

Forms of underscrupulous

comparativemore underscrupulous
superlativemost underscrupulous

Origin of underscrupulous

From under- + scrupulous.

Questions about underscrupulous

What does underscrupulous mean?
Underscrupulous means insufficiently scrupulous.
What part of speech is underscrupulous?
Underscrupulous is an adjective.

Words near underscrupulous in the dictionary

  1. underscreened
  2. underscreening
  3. underscribe
  4. underscribes
  5. underscrub
  6. underscrupulous
  7. undersea
  8. underseal
  9. undersealed
  10. undersealing
  11. underseals

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