Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Without scruples
- Contemptuous of what is right or honorable
Antonyms
Translations
without scruples
- Finnish: häikäilemätön
- Norwegian: skruppelløs
contemptuous of what is right or honourable
- Greek: αδίστακτος
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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