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unscrupulous

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Periodic permissions checks protect you against potentially unscrupulous app developers and give you more control over your privacy.

Some experts, echoing concerns expressed in the 1980s, worry that physician dispensing could open the door for unscrupulous practices—and warp the decision-making of even well-meaning physicians.

He also said agents should avoid detaining immigrants who land on their radar because they spoke out against “unscrupulous” landlords or employers, or at public demonstrations.

In her 2018 book, “Manufactured Insecurity,” Sullivan investigates the vulnerabilities and emotional stress that mobile home residents face in parks operated by unscrupulous or greedy managers.

The section of the law at issue was amended in 1973 to allow the FTC to seek a court-ordered “permanent injunction” against unscrupulous practices.

Or a modernized Tarzan might lead African miners on strike against unscrupulous multinationals.

It was all part of the unscrupulous technique of “monstering” critics of the Murdoch empire wherever they were.

Barely Legal Pawn stars the duo as unscrupulous, possibly deranged pawnshop employees.

Religions and ideologies are unscrupulous in their use of the past.

Safe within his mountaintop fortress, Escobar grew bolder and more unscrupulous.

He thought so, at least, as he laughed and agreed with her, saying Tony was an unscrupulous rascal at the best of times.

In London some years before, she had been the pupil of a learned minister, who had become an infidel, and also unscrupulous.

He usually wore his pale-grey felt hat at a slight angle, and had the air of the easy-going adventurer, debonair and unscrupulous.

He may be a friend of yours—he may be a dear friend—but in your heart you know that he is both unscrupulous and selfish.

Gibbon fancies he was at one time an unscrupulous bacon dealer, and that he finally did considerable business in religious gammon.

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On this page you'll find 98 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unscrupulous, such as: corrupt, crafty, crooked, deceitful, dishonest, and illegal.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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