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unscrupulously

unscrupulously adverb: in an unscrupulous manner.

Adverb

unscrupulously (comparative more unscrupulously, superlative most unscrupulously)

  1. In an unscrupulous manner.
    • His acquaintances were passed without greeting; while, as for his confidential friends, them he pointedly, unscrupulously, and with a kind of fierceness, cut dead.1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXXIV, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Antonyms of unscrupulously

Forms of unscrupulously

comparativemore unscrupulously
superlativemost unscrupulously

Origin of unscrupulously

From unscrupulous + -ly.

Questions about unscrupulously

What does unscrupulously mean?
Unscrupulously means in an unscrupulous manner.
What part of speech is unscrupulously?
Unscrupulously is an adverb.

Words near unscrupulously in the dictionary

  1. unscrunching
  2. unscrupled
  3. unscrupling
  4. unscrupulosity
  5. unscrupulous
  6. unscrupulously
  7. unscrupulousness
  8. unscrutable
  9. unscrutableness
  10. unscrutinised
  11. unscrutinizable

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