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The adverb of unscrupulous: doing something in a way that shows no conscience about right and wrong. Because it describes the manner of an action, it needs a verb to attach to — behave unscrupulously, act unscrupulously, exploit workers unscrupulously, unscrupulously misuse public money. The picture is the same as for the adjective: a person going after money or advantage and simply over the line that would stop most people, usually at somebody weaker's expense. Position is worth watching. English most often puts it after the verb and its object (he ran the company unscrupulously), but before the verb is also fine when the writer wants the emphasis early (they unscrupulously targeted elderly customers). Both read as formal and written — this is a word for a newspaper editorial, a court report or an essay, not for chatting. It is rarer than the adjective. If a sentence starts to feel heavy, most writers reach for the adjective instead: not "he behaved unscrupulously" but "he was unscrupulous." Both are correct; the second sounds lighter.
不擇手段地、昧著良心地
組成unscrupulous + -ly, the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb of manner. Inside it: un- (not) + Latin scrupulus, a sharp little stone in the shoe — the nagging feeling that something is not right.
同家族的字
- unscrupulousthe adjective this is built from
- scruplesame Latin scrupulus at the root
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
unscrupulouslyadv
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In an unscrupulous manner.
- His acquaintances were passed without greeting; while, as for his confidential friends, them he pointedly, unscrupulously, and with a kind of fierceness, cut dead.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。