What's the difference between immoral and unscrupulous?

Immoral


Definition:

  • (a.) Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s immoral.” On Twitter, Harris has occasionally mentioned his background when debating these matters.
  • (2) It is socially very divisive, it is stigmatising, it is subtly slanderous and it is immoral.
  • (3) The public would consider such schemes "completely and utterly and totally immoral" and those involved in devising and marketing them were "running rings around" tax officials, she said.
  • (4) Whatever the dogma, opposition to it is not just wrong, it is immoral.
  • (5) Fishing news Barcelona chairman Sandro Rosell says Arsenal were "immoral" to poach their youth player Jon Toral: "We don't like it that clubs come in with offers of money just before boys turn 16.
  • (6) People who campaigned against controls were conducting an immoral campaign.
  • (7) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
  • (8) It’s not illegal and it’s not immoral, but it’s probably best that we don’t talk about it at parents’ evening.’ Even at seven, she asked ‘But why is that a bad thing?’ And I said, ‘Well it’s not, but not everybody sees it that way.’” They moved to a new home, where both her neighbours and the school have been supportive and protective of her.
  • (9) Prominent physicians have recently stated that it is not immoral for a physician to assist in the rational suicide of a terminally ill patient.
  • (10) If you are a whistleblower like Edward Snowden, who tells the press about illegal, immoral or embarrassing government actions, you will face jail time.
  • (11) That, said the court today, "would make the whole trial not only immoral and illegal, but also entirely unreliable in its outcome".
  • (12) In the US, activists including the American Civil Liberties Union argue that it is immoral to claim ownership of humanity's shared genetic heritage.
  • (13) "Attempts to stop people communicating are in principle counter-productive and even immoral.
  • (14) Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, said Mandela was a "great man" who had made racism "not just immoral but stupid".
  • (15) The means test would have applied to cancer patients and stroke survivors, and was denounced by Lord Patel, a crossbencher and former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians, as an immoral attack on the sick, the vulnerable and the poor.
  • (16) One is that Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman empire in the early 19th century, denuded the Parthenon of much of its sculpture immorally, or even illicitly.
  • (17) He added: "These statistics show keeping aid promises is worth the world – and that breaking them should be deemed immoral."
  • (18) Profumo's confession and the Ward trial broke open the shell of the old establishment, exposing its immorality and incompetence.
  • (19) She felt the modern western world dealt badly with death – "the idea that mortality is a failure" – and that to waste time or use it without pleasure was "almost immoral".
  • (20) Walter wanders deeper into a world of which he previously knew nothing, deeper into immorality, but as the viewer you are always able to understand why he's doing it.

Unscrupulous


Definition:

  • (a.) Not scrupulous; unprincipled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
  • (2) Free speech has protected hate speech, and opponents of censorship have consistantly defended the rights of unscrupulous populists and incendiarists.
  • (3) A health committee meeting in Sacramento, the state capital, on Wednesday turned into a tense showdown between lawmakers seeking to argue that the science is unequivocally on the side of universal vaccination, and activists accusing them of being in the pocket of unscrupulous big pharmaceutical companies.
  • (4) That would be a nice box-ticking exercise for an unscrupulous council and dodgy developers and a big two fingers for concerned environmentalists.
  • (5) A lot of the problems hark back to these unscrupulous brokers who didn’t have any real interest in education.
  • (6) However, many fear that candidates are focusing on fraud in an unscrupulous attempt to set the ground for complaints if they lose, and risk discouraging voters and discrediting the entire election process along the way.
  • (7) Milliken, author of a report on rhino-horn consumption in Vietnam , also expressed concerns about the end-user market: "One wonders if unscrupulous dealers in these markets will not simply employ some means to 'bleach' them to back to a 'normal' appearance and continue raking in high profits."
  • (8) MPs accuse Sir Philip Green of being an 'unscrupulous chancer' Read more “I think if Philip had assisted us, we could have saved BHS.” Chappell said that Green called in £35m of debt owed to Arcadia after finding out that BHS was trying to reach a rescue deal with Sports Direct, thereby blocking the deal.
  • (9) "It seems to be used by younger kids who don't have access to illicit substances, like those who can't afford cocaine and are being targeted by unscrupulous dealers," Winstock said.
  • (10) I am not saying that all wellness programs are surveillance programs, but what we are seeing with the current status of the law, they do have that potential for unscrupulous employers to use them as a way to check on their employees and investigate the health of their employees.” Optional versus affordable The employers and the various companies behind the wellness programs point out that all wellness programs are optional.
  • (11) Limited opportunities for safe and regular migration drive would-be migrants into the hands of smugglers, feeding an unscrupulous trade that threatens the lives of desperate people.
  • (12) Often, they had been recruited by unscrupulous agents in their home countries who then demanded repayment of loans and found them jobs on far lower wages than promised.
  • (13) When he’s cornered, Johnson accuses others of his own vices, as unscrupulous journalists always do.
  • (14) They have agreed to tackle unscrupulous labour contractors who may traffic children, and collectively report grievances to government agencies and the police.
  • (15) In the popular memory, it goes back at least as far as the 18th century, when unscrupulous Polish nobles betrayed the country by allying themselves with Catherine the Great.
  • (16) Its most enthusiastic supporter was the coup plotter James Goldsmith, one of the most unscrupulous asset strippers of that time.
  • (17) That is not the fault of migrants – it’s the failure of government.” He blamed unscrupulous employers and government spending cuts for the impact of immigration on the public.
  • (18) And he also fears that some of the more unscrupulous operators might use this issue as “another excuse” to persuade hirers to take the firm’s expensive extra insurance.
  • (19) An insider in the tobacco industry has revealed some of the unscrupulous tactics it is using to avoid new restrictions governing the marketing of cigarettes that come into force next month.
  • (20) The Mail on Sunday said highly sensitive information including customers’ earnings, savings, mortgages, health issues and insurance policies ended up in the hands of unscrupulous brokers.