Both Uses
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Major Barbara
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- You got oil because you were selfish and unscrupulous.†
Act 3 *unscrupulous = unethicalstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unscrupulous means not and reverses the meaning of scrupulous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Your moralists are quite unscrupulous about both: they make virtues of them.†
Act 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(scrupulous) careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)