Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unscrupulous manner.
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- adverb In an
unscrupulous manner.
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- adverb without scruples
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Examples
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The Higher Learning Commission is now conducting an internal "investigation" of member institutions, including the University of Phoenix, the nation's largest private "university," charged by the federal government General Accounting Office with unscrupulously recruiting people eligible for federal financial aid who had no hope of achieving any type of credentials or jobs.
Alan Singer: Cancel My Subscription to the New York Times Alan Singer 2011
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The Higher Learning Commission is now conducting an internal "investigation" of member institutions, including the University of Phoenix, the nation's largest private "university," charged by the federal government General Accounting Office with unscrupulously recruiting people eligible for federal financial aid who had no hope of achieving any type of credentials or jobs.
Alan Singer: Cancel My Subscription to the New York Times Alan Singer 2011
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It stands to reason that meat from any farm animal who is too sick to stand poses an increased risk to consumers, but the USDA has typically taken a "don't look, don't find" approach, enabling agribusiness to act unscrupulously in order to bring in a few extra dollars.
Gene Baur: The Low-Down on Downers and the USDA Gene Baur 2011
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The Higher Learning Commission is now conducting an internal "investigation" of member institutions, including the University of Phoenix, the nation's largest private "university," charged by the federal government General Accounting Office with unscrupulously recruiting people eligible for federal financial aid who had no hope of achieving any type of credentials or jobs.
Alan Singer: Cancel My Subscription to the New York Times Alan Singer 2011
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This assessment obscures the real issue at hand in Wisconsin: Governor Walker is unscrupulously using the budget crisis as an opportunity to push forward an anti-organized labor agenda.
Virginia groups criticize McDonnell's support of Wisconsin's Walker 2011
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It stands to reason that meat from any farm animal who is too sick to stand poses an increased risk to consumers, but the USDA has typically taken a "don't look, don't find" approach, enabling agribusiness to act unscrupulously in order to bring in a few extra dollars.
Gene Baur: The Low-Down on Downers and the USDA Gene Baur 2011
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It's just tough out there in the world and there are very greedy people who have made things too unscrupulously big that they have no choice but to fail.
Mike Ragogna: Grand Illusions & Breakfasts in America: Conversations with Styx's James "J.Y." Young and Supertramp's Roger Hodgson Mike Ragogna 2012
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But there are some who will unscrupulously use material generated by others, claim it as their own, and leave the original thought behind.
The Culture of Sharing: Why Releasing Copyright Will Be the Smartest Thing You Do | Write to Done 2009
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It's just tough out there in the world and there are very greedy people who have made things too unscrupulously big that they have no choice but to fail.
Mike Ragogna: Grand Illusions & Breakfasts in America: Conversations with Styx's James "J.Y." Young and Supertramp's Roger Hodgson Mike Ragogna 2012
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Pretty much all of this wingnuttery is being funded by people who are unscrupulously leeching off of hard working Americans, and they wear flag clothes and sponsor rock concerts to try to keep them from noticing.
Think Progress » Don Blankenship Called Safety Regulators ‘As Silly As Global Warming’ 2010
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