unscrupulous
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"Unscrupulous marketers suddenly realised every kid in Australia is going to want one of these," Scruby says.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
Unscrupulous actors sometimes exploit the lack of legal regulations to do grotesque things.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026
Unscrupulous vendors “may do whatever they want with that information, including selling it to anyone else,” said Covey.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024
Unscrupulous private landlords may lease public plots from Caltrans, then illegally sublet pieces of them at inflated rents to immigrant businesses whose owners are uninsured.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2023
Unscrupulous, restlessly active and cynical, he was a singular contrast to the placid philosopher, upon whom his confidences seem to have made an impression of not unpleasing horror.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Grade 10, List 6
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