Thesaurus / unscrupulous
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Periodic permissions checks protect you against potentially unscrupulous app developers and give you more control over your privacy.
TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR APPS’ PERMISSIONSDAVID NIELDNOVEMBER 18, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCESome 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.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR DOCTOR AND PHARMACIST ARE THE SAME PERSONMICHAEL SCHULSON/UNDARKOCTOBER 18, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEHe 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.
DHS ISSUES NEW ARREST AND DEPORTATION GUIDELINES TO IMMIGRATION AGENTSMARIA SACCHETTISEPTEMBER 30, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIn 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.
EXTREME HEAT IS KILLING PEOPLE IN ARIZONA’S MOBILE HOMESKAREN PETERSONJULY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe section of the law at issue was amended in 1973 to allow the FTC to seek a court-ordered “permanent injunction” against unscrupulous practices.
SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUS THAT FTC LACKED AUTHORITY TO RECOVER BILLIONS FOR CONSUMERSROBERT BARNES, RACHEL LERMANAPRIL 22, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHe thought so, at least, as he laughed and agreed with her, saying Tony was an unscrupulous rascal at the best of times.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODIn London some years before, she had been the pupil of a learned minister, who had become an infidel, and also unscrupulous.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXHe usually wore his pale-grey felt hat at a slight angle, and had the air of the easy-going adventurer, debonair and unscrupulous.
THE DOCTOR OF PIMLICOWILLIAM LE QUEUXHe 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.
THE DOUBLE FOURE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIMGibbon fancies he was at one time an unscrupulous bacon dealer, and that he finally did considerable business in religious gammon.
OUR CHURCHES AND CHAPELSATTICUSWORDS RELATED TO UNSCRUPULOUS
- arch
- artful
- astute
- bluffing
- cagey
- calculating
- canny
- captious
- conniving
- covert
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- designing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- dissembling
- double-dealing
- elusive
- foxy
- furtive
- guileful
- illusory
- impish
- ingenious
- insidious
- intriguing
- mean
- mischievous
- plotting
- roguish
- scheming
- secret
- secretive
- sharp
- shifty
- shrewd
- slick
- smart
- smooth
- sneaky
- stealthy
- subtle
- surreptitious
- traitorous
- treacherous
- tricky
- underhand
- unscrupulous
- wily
- clandestine
- concealed
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- deceptive
- devious
- dirty-dealing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- double-crossing
- duplicitous
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hush-hush
- indirect
- insidious
- oblique
- on the Q.T.
- on the quiet
- secret
- secretive
- shady
- shifty
- slippery
- sly
- sneaking
- sneaky
- stealthy
- sub-rosa
- surreptitious
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- under wraps
- undercover
- underhanded
- unethical
- unfair
- unjust
- unscrupulous
- wily
- arbitrary
- bad
- base
- biased
- bigoted
- blameworthy
- cheating
- criminal
- crooked
- cruel
- culpable
- discreditable
- discriminatory
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- foul
- grievous
- illegal
- immoral
- improper
- inequitable
- inexcusable
- iniquitous
- injurious
- low
- mean
- one-sided
- partial
- partisan
- petty
- shameful
- shameless
- uncalled-for
- undue
- unethical
- unjust
- unjustifiable
- unlawful
- unprincipled
- unreasonable
- unrightful
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- unwarranted
- vicious
- vile
- wicked
- wrong
- abandoned
- amoral
- bent
- cheating
- conscienceless
- crooked
- deceitful
- devious
- dirty dealing
- dishonest
- dissolute
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- immoral
- licentious
- mercentary
- praetorian
- profligate
- reprobate
- shady
- sly
- stop-at-nothing
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unconscionable
- underhand
- unethical
- unprofessional
- unscrupulous
- venal
- wanton
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