conscienceless

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In Kissinger's case, it's particularly hard to imagine how a man who started out as a Jewish refugee from the Nazis could be as conscienceless as he was about the slaughter in East Pakistan.

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2023

Amid this, we follow many lives, including two brothers looking for work, a showgirl, a villainous spy, a conscienceless fat cat and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, labor organizer, feminist and, later, a founder of the ACLU.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2021

But they’re nothing compared to the strangers themselves, who, even though we never see their faces, read as viciously conscienceless young adults.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2018

Each of those followed a period of gambling and irrational market exuberance built on conscienceless exploitation.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2017

Do you really believe that a handful of conscienceless egoists and corruptionists could have succeeded in setting free all these evil spirits, if the millions of followers did not share in the guilt?

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund