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  • Mr. Radcliffe's Finch is a twinkly, huggable gent whose ruthless unscrupulosity is positively endearing.

    Lovable, Huggable, And Unscrupulous Too Terry Teachout 2011

  • He turned on her cheek the heat of love, its horror, its cruelty, its unscrupulosity.

    To the Lighthouse 2002

  • A combination of audacity and fidelity with shrewdness, resourcefulness, and unscrupulosity, was precisely what he wanted and precisely what he had found.

    England under the Tudors

  • On the one side were ranged weight and science and a shoe; on the other, wings and astounding agility and utter unscrupulosity.

    The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

  • There was a difference of only a year in their ages, Vanessa being the elder; but the younger girl with her greater keenness of vision, more exuberant health and spirits, and more resolute unscrupulosity, had so carried the heart of the other by storm that it was Vanessa, the provincial termagant, who looked up to and worshipped her sister dare-devil of the Metropolis, and who watched her for her every cue.

    Too Old for Dolls A Novel 1926

  • The Emperor was believed to incline to him; Arcadius had succumbed to the ascendency of the bad hypocrite, Theophilus of Alexandria, a man who, in his boundless ambition, his hateful unscrupulosity, and his fierce cruelty when he was aroused to envy or hatred, was perhaps the worst type of many bad forms of priestliness in an evil age.

    Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

  • She finds in his books unscrupulosity of statement, absence of genuine charity, and a perverted moral judgment.

    George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885

  • She finds in his books unscrupulosity of statement, absence of genuine charity, and a perverted moral judgment.

    George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884

  • The Federal Government, in short, up to 1876 gave by its arms authority in the South to the unscrupulosity of Northern scoundrelism supported by the votes of Negro ignorance.

    England's Case Against Home Rule Albert Venn Dicey 1878

  • Hence, we by no means suspect that the unscrupulosity of statement with which we charge

    The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete George Eliot 1849

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