"unscrupulous" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌʌnˈskɹuːpjʊləs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unscrupulous.wav Forms: more unscrupulous [comparative], most unscrupulous [superlative]
Etymology: From un- + scrupulous. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|scrupulous}} un- + scrupulous Head templates: {{en-adj}} unscrupulous (comparative more unscrupulous, superlative most unscrupulous)
  1. Without scruples; immoral. Translations (without scruples): vicdansız (Azerbaijani), insafsız (Azerbaijani), безскрупулен (bezskrupulen) (Bulgarian), bezskrupulózní (Czech), bezohledný (Czech), skrupelløs (Danish), onscrupuleus (Dutch), häikäilemätön (Finnish), inscrupuleux (French), peu scrupuleux (French), sans scrupule (French), sen escrúpulos (Galician), skrupellos (German), rücksichtslos (German), gewissenlos (German), hemmungslos (German), bedenkenlos (German), unnachsichtig (German), lelkiismeretlen (Hungarian), samviskulaus (Icelandic), gan scrupall (Irish), несо́весен (nesóvesen) (Macedonian), бессо́весен (bessóvesen) (Macedonian), непринципие́лен (neprincipiélen) (Macedonian), беспри́нципен (bespríncipen) (Macedonian), бескрупуло́зен (beskrupulózen) (Macedonian), kōroiroii (Maori), skruppelløs (Norwegian Bokmål), skruppellaus (Norwegian Nynorsk), bez skrupułów (Polish), inescrupuloso (Portuguese), беспринци́пный (besprincípnyj) (Russian), inescrupuloso (Spanish), skrupelfri (Swedish), ahlaksız (Turkish), terbiyesiz (Turkish), vicdansız (Turkish), ۋىجدانسىز (wijdansiz) (Uyghur)
    Sense id: en-unscrupulous-en-adj-0qdaoJAY Disambiguation of 'without scruples': 97 3
  2. Contemptuous of what is right or honorable. Translations (contemptuous of what is right or honourable): 不擇手段的 (Chinese Mandarin), 不择手段的 (bùzéshǒuduàn de) (Chinese Mandarin), bezcharakterní (Czech), häikäilemätön (Finnish), skrupellos (German), αδίστακτος (adístaktos) (Greek), gátlástalan (Hungarian), lelkiismeretlen (Hungarian), kōroiroi (Maori), skruppelløs (Norwegian Bokmål), skruppellaus (Norwegian Nynorsk), desaprensivo (Spanish)
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    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Uyghur translations"
  ],
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        "2": "un",
        "3": "scrupulous"
      },
      "expansion": "un- + scrupulous",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From un- + scrupulous.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more unscrupulous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most unscrupulous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unscrupulous (comparative more unscrupulous, superlative most unscrupulous)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "un‧scru‧pu‧lous"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1888, Rutherford B. Hayes, edited by Charles Richard Williams, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, volume IV, Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, published 1925, page 374:",
          "text": "The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Doris L. Bergen, “Flashover: The Killing Centers, 1942-1944”, in War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, page 272:",
          "text": "Nazism, they wrote, had turned German youth into godless, shameless, unscrupulous murderers.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Without scruples; immoral."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scruple",
          "scruple"
        ],
        [
          "immoral",
          "immoral"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Contemptuous of what is right or honorable."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Contemptuous",
          "contemptuous"
        ],
        [
          "right",
          "right"
        ],
        [
          "honorable",
          "honorable"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌʌnˈskɹuːpjʊləs/"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "vicdansız"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "insafsız"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bezskrupulen",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "безскрупулен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "bezskrupulózní"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "bezohledný"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "skrupelløs"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "onscrupuleus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "häikäilemätön"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "inscrupuleux"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "peu scrupuleux"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "sans scrupule"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "sen escrúpulos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "skrupellos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "rücksichtslos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "gewissenlos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "hemmungslos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "bedenkenlos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "unnachsichtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "lelkiismeretlen"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "samviskulaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "gan scrupall"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "nesóvesen",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "несо́весен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "bessóvesen",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "бессо́весен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "neprincipiélen",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "непринципие́лен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "bespríncipen",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "беспри́нципен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "beskrupulózen",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "бескрупуло́зен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "kōroiroii"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "skruppelløs"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "skruppellaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "bez skrupułów"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "inescrupuloso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "besprincípnyj",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "беспринци́пный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "inescrupuloso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "skrupelfri"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "ahlaksız"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "terbiyesiz"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "vicdansız"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "wijdansiz",
      "sense": "without scruples",
      "word": "ۋىجدانسىز"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "contemptuous of what is right or honourable",
      "word": "不擇手段的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bùzéshǒuduàn de",
      "sense": "contemptuous of what is right or honourable",
      "word": "不择手段的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "contemptuous of what is right or honourable",
      "word": "bezcharakterní"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "contemptuous of what is right or honourable",
      "word": "häikäilemätön"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "contemptuous of what is right or honourable",
      "word": "skrupellos"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "adístaktos",
      "sense": "contemptuous of what is right or honourable",
      "word": "αδίστακτος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "contemptuous of what is right or honourable",
      "word": "gátlástalan"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "contemptuous of what is right or honourable",
      "word": "lelkiismeretlen"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "contemptuous of what is right or honourable",
      "word": "kōroiroi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "contemptuous of what is right or honourable",
      "word": "skruppelløs"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "contemptuous of what is right or honourable",
      "word": "skruppellaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "contemptuous of what is right or honourable",
      "word": "desaprensivo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "unscrupulous"
}

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