Meanings
adverbunscrupulously (comparative more unscrupulously, superlative most unscrupulously)
comparative more unscrupulously · superlative most unscrupulously
- In an unscrupulous manner.
His acquaintances were passed without greeting; while, as for his confidential friends, them he pointedly, unscrupulously, and with a kind of fierceness, cut dead.
1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXXIV, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
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Translations
Finnish häikäilemättömästi, häikäilemättä
- häikäilemättömästiin an unscrupulous manner
- häikäilemättäin an unscrupulous manner
Greek αδίστακτα
- αδίστακτα (adístakta)in an unscrupulous manner
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Chicago
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