Example sentences for: unscrupulous

How can you use “unscrupulous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some unscrupulous farmers (or merchants) back then made a practice of diluting the milk they sold with water, thus being able to sell water at the price of milk.

  • An incriminating missive has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous fortune hunter, Mrs. Cheveley (Julianne Moore), who's happy to destroy it if Chiltern trashes his high ideals and throws his support to a real-estate scam in which his blackmailer is heavily invested.

  • Moreover, absent enforcement, unscrupulous employers, who violate the protections in the H-2A program,

  • At Taft High School and UCLA, Zucker said, the closest brush with poverty was reading newspaper articles about unscrupulous bosses withholding wages from garment district workers.

  • We are asked to feel especially sorry for Richard Nixon, who endured vilification from the New York Times and Washington Post that was "continual, venomous, unscrupulous, inventive, and sometimes unlawful."


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