Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unscrupulously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English

Syllables: un-scrupu-lous-ly
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In an unscrupulous manner.

Example Sentences

"His acquaintances were passed without greeting; while, as for his confidential friends, them he pointedly, unscrupulously, and with a kind of fierceness, cut dead."

Etymology

Etymology tree English unscrupulous Middle English -ly English -ly English unscrupulously From unscrupulous + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more unscrupulously (comparative) most unscrupulously (superlative)

Antonyms

scrupulously

Questions

What does unscrupulously mean?: In an unscrupulous manner.
Where does unscrupulously come from?: Etymology tree English unscrupulous Middle English -ly English -ly English unscrupulously From unscrupulous + -ly.

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