scrupleless
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Without scruples; uninhibited by conscience or moral concerns.
Example Sentences
- "Your Grace's swordsmen have had ill luck of late; and it is hard, since you always choose the best hands, and such scrupleless knaves too."
- "Almost he longed to be a scrupleless Oriental and carry her off across his saddle bow."
- "We feel one of these untrained civilians will come face to face with a scrupleless smuggler."
Etymology
Etymology tree English scruple Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English scrupleless From scruple + -less.
Inflected Forms
more scrupleless (comparative)
most scrupleless (superlative)