The corrupt elements are usually successful in proportion to their astuteness and unscrupulousness. |
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Few Prime Ministers have ever been more sincere in their piety, and few have been capable of greater deviousness or even unscrupulousness. |
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I'd say I was surprised, except that the total unscrupulousness of this crew is by now something to take for granted. |
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I have to thank those politicians without whose unscrupulousness and stupidity, I would not be able to win this honour. |
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The pace and urgency of such orders, combined with the unscrupulousness of manufacturers, led to the production of questionable service shoes. |
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It was, according to Balzac, a world in which talent counted for nothing, and bribery, intrigue and unscrupulousness were the key factors in success. |
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And yet these are also the people whose evasiveness and unscrupulousness makes them the least likely to be affected by a geographically bounded anti-spam law. |
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His sons demonstrated the courage and also the unscrupulousness of the family by finding the principal leaders of the plot and having them beheaded. |
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The dramatic Highlander hawks the romantic story of a young man from the South who grew up as an orphan in the North, while the hysteric Wanadoo tells about Internet mania and the unscrupulousness of the online business. |
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Far worse behaviour has come to light, beginning with revelations of phone-hacking at the News of the World on such a scale, and of such unscrupulousness, that the newspaper was quickly closed. |
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Grant obviously loves the comedy of monomaniac egotism: Walter Burns' callousness and unscrupulousness are expressed in some of the best farce lines ever written in this country, and Grant hits those lines with a smack. |
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The reasons for this include changes in the physical environment, children being left without appropriate care and supervision, and sometimes the desperation, frustration or unscrupulousness of adults. |
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It was a lesson he absorbed as a boy from his wealthy and cynical father, who taught him that greed, arrogance and unscrupulousness were the way of the world. |
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