Unscrupulous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unscrupulous \Un*scru"pu*lous\, a.
     Not scrupulous; unprincipled. -- {Un*scru"pu*lous*ly}, adv.
     -- {Un*scru"pu*lous*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  unscrupulous
       adj 1: without scruples or principles; "unscrupulous politicos who
              would be happy to sell...their country in order to
              gain power" [ant: {scrupulous}]
       2: lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable [syn: {dishonest}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "unscrupulous":
     amoral, artful, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, crafty,
     criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, devious, dishonest,
     dishonorable, disingenuous, doubtful, dubious, evasive, evil,
     faithless, false, felonious, fishy, fraudulent, ill-got,
     ill-gotten, immoral, improper, inaccurate, indirect, inexact,
     insidious, knavish, mercenary, not kosher, perfidious,
     questionable, roguish, rotten, scheming, shady, shameless, shifty,
     sinister, slippery, sly, sneaky, stick-at-nothing, suspicious,
     treacherous, tricky, unconscienced, unconscientious,
     unconscionable, uncritical, underhand, underhanded, unethical,
     unexacting, unfinical, unfussy, unmeticulous, unpainstaking,
     unparticular, unprecise, unprincipled, unpunctilious, unpunctual,
     unrigorous, unsavory, unseemly, unstraightforward, untrustworthy,
     venal, wicked, without remorse, without shame, wrongful