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unscrupulous

[uhn-skroo-pyuh-luhs] / ʌnˈskru pyə ləs /


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Green Party leader Zack Polanski said: "It's disgusting to see these unscrupulous law firms taking advantage of people like this or taking advantage of a system like this."

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

Imran Hussain, from the Refugee Council charity, said it was "deplorable that unscrupulous advisers are exploiting desperate and vulnerable people for profit and those responsible must be held to account".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

“Anytime there’s uncertainty, unscrupulous people take advantage of that,” O’Saben said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Some unscrupulous businesses are seeing it as an opportunity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

People had raised their eyebrows when Ali, a man who had mem­orized the Koran, married Sanaubar, a woman nineteen years younger, a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman who lived up to her dishonorable reputation.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini




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