unscrupulously

1. 1.

   without scruples

   “she unscrupulously uses her charm to make men do what she wants”

Questions about unscrupulously

What does unscrupulously mean?

unscrupulously means "without scruples".

How many syllables are in unscrupulously?

unscrupulously has 5 syllables and divides as un-scru-pu-lou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is unscrupulously a common word?

unscrupulously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.