a. (UN-1 7.)
1803. Godwin, Chaucer, xli. II. 265. A person … boundless in ambition, and unscrupulous in his choice of means for gratifying it.
1829. Scott, Anne of G., xix. The priest took instant and unscrupulous possession of his seat of honour.
1875. Jowett, Plato, II. 222. The worse he is the more unscrupulous he will be.
Hence Unscrupulously adv., -ness.
1808. Mitford, Hist. Greece, IV. 356. Their unscrupulousness in using the arbitrary powers of democratical government.
1833. J. H. Newman, Arians, iv. § ii. 315. This mere handful of divines unscrupulously pressing forward into the highest ecclesiastical stations.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul, xxxviii. II. 248. The unscrupulousness of a worldly ecclesiasticism.
1884. Church, Bacon, iii. 61. Lawyers … who unscrupulously pushed their way to preferment.
