unscrupulousness

noun

Definition of unscrupulousnessnext
1
as in immorality

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2
as in underhandedness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscrupulousness
  1. immorality
  2. corruption
  3. depravity
  4. hypocrisy
  5. debauchery
  6. secrecy
  7. iniquity
Noun
  • What captivated me about the series was its unwillingness to sugarcoat the immorality of man.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The history of medicine is too littered with incompetence and immorality to believe that doctors have always been worthy of this status.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of immorality
Noun
  • He was arrested in 1973 on corruption charges, and his 52-day long trial cost 1.25 million British pounds.
    Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Adams, 64, was indicted in September on federal corruption charges, pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing.
    Mark Crudele, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • Attempts to extradite him from London back to France were thwarted partially due to the new awareness of the depravity that reigned in the island jail.
    Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The country’s financial straits, together with the explosion that devastated the port of Beirut in 2020, have exposed the depravity of Lebanon’s political class.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of depravity
Noun
  • This hypocrisy is rancid but irrelevant to those for whom the end justifies any means, including cold-blooded murder.
    Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Daily News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Loudermilk appeared on Life, Liberty, and Levin Saturday to point out Cheney’s hypocrisy.
    Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of hypocrisy
Noun
  • Tuesday, December 10 The Scene Art Week Afterglow: Wellness Sanctuary at The Standard Spa, Miami Beach The Report After a whirlwind week of art fairs and dance floor debauchery, The Standard Spa offered the perfect sanctuary for relaxation and recovery.
    Jaime Sloane, SPIN, 16 Dec. 2024
  • To the show’s not-really-defense, it’s never taken a strong stance on Jimmy’s new approach, which followed a year of catatonia, debauchery and pawning his teenage daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell) off on their neighbor Liz (Christa Miller) to surrogate parent.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of debauchery
Noun
  • Report’s release marks end to drama on Capitol Hill Monday’s release of the report marks the end of a weeks-long drama surrounding whether the panel, which typically conducts its work in secrecy would release its findings.
    Emily Brooks, The Hill, 23 Dec. 2024
  • In a mission veiled in secrecy, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Monday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, sending a military Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite to a medium orbit about 12,000 miles above Earth, Space News reports.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of secrecy
Noun
  • This book makes the case that there is a subtler iniquity in the sins of forgetting, in papering over, in moving in and moving on.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Not always, of course; like any subset of humanity, churches are just as likely to be filled with iniquity, pettiness, and spite.
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of iniquity
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