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Along with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the heads of these agencies don’t have many scruples when it comes to this policy.

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They were both these outsiders from the boroughs with tremendous life force and ambition with a shared, I think, lack of scruple or ethical core, for whom winning was the only moral measure.

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The convicted sex offender who died in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 had a low opinion of his former associate, feeling that he had "no scruples" and could not be trusted.

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But with Kamala Harris and a smattering of small-party candidates the only other options this November, Wade is putting his scruples to one side.

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Some may have otherwise been stolen by Western visitors with less scruples to be sold on the lucrative European and American artefacts market.

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

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