Words similar to unscrupulous
Example sentences for: unscrupulous
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Poor Mexican street fighters are brought to the United States by unscrupulous promoters to serve as patsies for American boxers.
The trouble with a legal system that allows a significant probability of convicting innocent people is that it allows unscrupulous prosecutors to become petty tyrants.
Under an interpretation that the claim must arise while the worker was in the United States, unscrupulous employers would be able to exploit the system by, for example, failing to mail a final paycheck or 3/4 guarantee payment after the H-2A worker left the country, with knowledge that the worker would not be entitled to legal representation on the claim.
Indelicato (indelicate, unscrupulous) or Inganni ( inganno deceit) would do if one was not to be trusted, but Tagliavini ( tagliare to cut, vino `wine; in other words, one who would stoop to adulterating wine) had a certain extra punch.
The danger is that an unscrupulous company will set aside too much money--since with a big write-off investors tend to disregard the hit to earnings--and then use the excess to make its bottom line look better in future years.