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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscrupulousness
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In a Code world, no film should risk lowering an audience’s moral standards nor should evil or immorality be presented except as a cautionary tale.—
Betsy Golden Kellem,
JSTOR Daily,
25 June 2025 -
Omari’s father, Hassan (J. Paul Nicholas), is the conservative Muslim governor of Mombasa, fond of attacking the immorality in nightclubs like the Moto Moto, where most of Goddess is set, though he’s withdrawn from his reelection campaign after an illness.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
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Check if the customer database can be fully restored within a 24-hour recovery time after simulated data corruption.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Fighting rampant government corruption was Zelensky’s main campaign pledge ahead of the 2019 election.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
23 July 2025
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Do not underestimate their capabilities or depravities.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
21 July 2025
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Bobby Anspach was too good a person to think this base depravity in other people couldn’t be changed.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Mafalda is a young girl who hates soup and hypocrisy and loves democracy and the Beatles.—
Alex Dueben
July 21,
Literary Hub,
21 July 2025
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Delirium is both intimate and expansive—an unflinching look at mental illness, social hypocrisy, and the heavy burden of our unspoken traumas.—
Time,
Time,
18 July 2025
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If the sneak peek is any indication, audiences will be treated with plenty of debauchery when the series returns next year.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
24 July 2025
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Photo: Courtesy of Rizzoli That’s not to say the Hollywood Handbook is all about debauchery—though there is plenty of it.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
31 Jan. 2025
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This style fosters defensiveness, secrecy, and a culture of fear.—
Mark Murphy,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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The secrecy surrounding the Maxwell interview has only contributed to the lack of trust—for many—in the administration line.—
Ryan Lucas,
NPR,
29 July 2025
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Thanks to an incessant stream of sensational newspaper articles and a nonstop rumor mill, the public had the idea of Hollywood as a lair of iniquity and debasement.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
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These smoky, dark dens of gaming iniquity used to be everywhere, enticing you in with flashing marquees, simple synth melodies, and crunchy 8-bit explosions.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
26 June 2025
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“Unscrupulousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscrupulousness. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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