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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

not showing fairness or honesty, lacking scruples or moral principles;

e.g. The new sheriff's unscrupulous behavior made him unpopular and untrustworthy.

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Similar Words

Cutthroat

Evil-minded

Immoral

Inequitable

Machiavellian

Squalid

Unconscionable

Unethical

Unjust

Unmoral

Unprincipled

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Opposite Words

Aboveboard

All right

Conscientious

Ethic

Ethical

Fair

Good

Honest

Honorable

Incorrupt

Incorruptible

Just

Legal

Moral

Noble

Principled

Right

Right-minded

Righteous

Scrupulous

Stand-up

Straight

True

Truthful

Unimpeachable

Unobjectionable

Upright

Upstanding

Veracious

Virtuous

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Related Words

Arbitrary

Artful

Base

Beguiling

Bent

Black

Cagey

Calculating

Cheap

Cheapjack

Contemptible

Corrupt

Crafty

Criminal

Crooked

Cunning

Cute

Dark

Decadent

Deceitful

Deceptive

Degenerate

Degraded

Deplorable

Depraved

Designing

Despicable

Detestable

Devious

Dictatorial

Dishonest

Dishonorable

Dissipated

Dissolute

Dodgy

Duplicitous

Effete

Evil

Execrable

Fast

Foxy

Frail

Fraudulent

Grubby

High-handed

Ignoble

Ignominious

Illegal

Illegitimate

Illicit

Immoral

Imperious

Iniquitous

Invertebrate

Jackleg

Knavish

Lame

Lawless

Libertine

Licentious

Loose

Low

Low-minded

Lowdown

Mean

Merciless

Namby-pamby

Nefarious

Nerveless

Opportunistic

Peremptory

Perverse

Perverted

Pitiable

Pitiful

Pitiless

Profligate

Ratty

Remorseless

Rotten

Ruthless

Scabby

Scheming

Scurvy

Shady

Sharp

Shifty

Shrewd

Sick

Sinful

Slick

Sly

Slyly

Sneaking

Snide

Soft

Sordid

Sorry

Spineless

Subtle

Tricky

Underhand

Underhanded

Unethical

Unfair

Unlawful

Unrighteous

Unsavory

Venal

Venality

Vicious

Vile

Villainous

Weak

Weak-kneed

Weakling

Wet

Wicked

Willful

Wily

Wishy-washy

Wrongful

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