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as in immorality
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as in underhandedness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscrupulousness
Noun
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Now, more than two years after the Evros Thirty-eight made landfall on the islet, Little Maria is practically a household name, synonymous with refugees’ immorality and the malfeasance of NGOs and journalists.—
Lauren Markham,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025 -
At its core, moral outrage is a response to the feeling that others are acting immorally and that their immorality is destroying society.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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Boland states that a comprehensive charter is needed to address Chicago’s continuing climate of political corruption.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2025
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Blatter, 89, and Platini, 69, had been facing a charge of corruption at the Extraordinary Appeals Chamber of the Swiss Criminal Court before being cleared, according to a statement to The Athletic from their lawyer, having previously been cleared of fraud more than two years ago.—
Dan Sheldon,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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Luther, like Breaking Bad and other shows of that era, was very dark and plumbed the depths of human depravity.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Feb. 2025
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But what starts out as an easy payday soon becomes an unsettling journey into the deepest pits of human depravity.—
S.A. Cosby,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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Later on, Sprawl breezes through one of the play’s best speeches, Emilia’s sharp, brief gut-punch on the hypocrisy of men.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
24 Mar. 2025
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In a statement carried by state media Monday, North Korea's Foreign Ministry accused the G7 of hypocrisy.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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Lithgow’s character humiliates Rush’s character by forcing him to perform a humiliating act on the dementia doll, reveling in the deeply sinister debauchery.—
Simon Thompson,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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The street, famous for debauchery and celebration, wouldn’t fully reopen until their blood was pressure-washed from the pavement.—
Dakin Andone,
CNN,
7 Feb. 2025
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Her stories on Kansas secrecy and religion have been nationally recognized.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
21 Mar. 2025
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Can true intimacy exist without full disclosure, or is some level of secrecy necessary for survival?—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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“Unscrupulousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscrupulousness. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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