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unˈscrupulous, a.
(un-1 7.)
1803Godwin Chaucer xli. II. 265 A person..boundless in ambition, and unscrupulous in his choice of means for gratifying it. 1829Scott Anne of G. xix, The priest took instant and unscrupulous possession of his seat of honour. 1875Jowett Plato II. 222 The worse he is the more unscrupulous he will be.
Hence unˈscrupulously adv., -ness.
1808Mitford Hist. Greece IV. 356 Their unscrupulousness in using the arbitrary powers of democratical government. 1833J. H. Newman Arians iv. §ii. 315 This mere handful of divines unscrupulously pressing forward into the highest ecclesiastical stations. 1879Farrar St. Paul xxxviii. II. 248 The unscrupulousness of a worldly ecclesiasticism. 1884Church Bacon iii. 61 Lawyers..who unscrupulously pushed their way to preferment. |