conscienceless

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There are thousands like him in my dear New York--conscienceless, invertebrate, sybaritic sons of idleness, college-bred and under-bred little beasts who can buy and then cast off at their pleasure.

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  1. Having no conscience; free from or not marked by conscientious scruples. Conscienceless and wicked patrons, of which sort the swarm are too great in the Church of England. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, vii. § 24 (Ord MS.). That has never been paralleled in all the history of your conscienceless partisanship. The American, VIII. 346.

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  • He should have dragged her from the carriage, he thought, and pulled those ladylike fripperies from her hair, and taken what he wanted and walked away, laughing, like the conscienceless monster he was. —  Loretta Chase - Lord of Scoundrels
  • The Soviet government stormed at the conscienceless, degraded theft of its own State secret by decadent and imperialistic outsiders. —  COPYRIGHT 1940, 1947, 1948
  • In resources of this nature Blake became quite conscienceless, salving his soul with the altogether Jesuitic claim that illegal means were always justified by the legal end By the time he had fought his way up to the office of Second Deputy he no longer resented being known as a "rough neck" or a "flat foot." —  Never-Fail Blake
  • There are thousands like him in my dear New York--conscienceless, invertebrate, sybaritic sons of idleness, college-bred and under-bred little beasts who can buy and then cast off at their pleasure. —  The Husbands of Edith
  • Whether the conscienceless or those overburdened with this type of conscience have done more harm in the world is perhaps an open question, which I leave to the historians for settlement The other type of the overconscientious does definite harm to themselves. —  The Nervous Housewife
 

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