scrupulous

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

deceiving others and not telling the truth
dishonestThe press called out the campaign's dishonest tactics.
untrustworthyHe made the mistake of basing his news story on an untrustworthy source.
deviousIt was a devious plan - but would it work?
deceitfulShe's deeply deceitful and not to be trusted.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dishonest
artificiality
bad faith
be rotten to the coreidiom
bent
cowboy
dubiously
false
finagle
fishy
fly-by-night
malfeasance
mendacious
mendaciously
misleading
misleadingly
uncandid
under false pretencesphrase
underhand
unreliability
unreliable

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Morally wrong and evil

unscrupulous | American Dictionary

unscrupulous
adjective
us/ʌnˈskru·pjə·ləs/
willing to lie or cheat to succeed:
an unscrupulous salesman

unscrupulous | Business English

unscrupulous
adjective
uk /ʌnˈskruːpjələs/us
behaving in a way that is dishonest or unfair in order to get what you want:
unscrupulous dealers/employers/operatorsCounterfeit documents make it easier for unscrupulous employers to knowingly hire illegal workers.
We protect consumers by going after unscrupulous lenders or unscrupulous contractors or unscrupulous real estate agents.
unscrupulous businesses/companies/practices

unscrupulously

adverb
It is a problem when corporations wield market power unscrupulously.

unscrupulousness

noun[ U ]
His reputation for unscrupulousness compromised many of his achievements.

Examples of unscrupulous

unscrupulous
For example, there have been complaints that publication of site details may lead to increased despoliation by unscrupulous collectors.
Even creating the lot boundaries offered opportunities for unscrupulous political operators to profit.
Some unscrupulous litigation masters bribed the clerks in charge to tamper with submitted accusations, rebuttals and evidence, or worse still, to rewrite case records.
It appears, therefore, to simply attribute deforestation to population pressure and unscrupulous behaviour is wrong.
The conclusive presumption of legitimacy, however, was not as much a tool for unscrupulous women as it was for highly scrupulous judges.
Unscrupulous creditors made additional capital out of the clothes deposited against loans, by illegally renting them out.
You judged me by my pseudonymous publications to be single and unscrupulous.
One side objected to unscrupulous political methods; the other employed them liberally.
They point out that an unscrupulous analyst can concoct any desired result by the creative specification of prior distributions for the parameters in the model.
Many unscrupulous companies haven't hesitated to imitate the shape of the bottle and the label.
The salesman's unscrupulous behavior was documented in written notes, which allowed the exchange to take place between the parties.
They were seen as victims of unscrupulous creditors who had contracted too much debt, something which many people felt could easily happen to them.
Alongside these, preschool education may be treated like other precious commodities, and parents can expect to be saved from unscrupulous entrepreneurs, but will themselves be able to invest in education.
At the same time he assured for himself the enmity of unscrupulous men who helped bring about his fall from power at the first possible opportunity.
The guiding star had been unscrupulous pragmatism.
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