conscienceless

Examples

• All

• He's a brutal, sadistic, conscienceless assassin.

  The Kremlin Letter (1970)

• Sociopaths are conscienceless and will lie and promise you the moon while they have a whole other agenda in mind.

  Blog text (31)

• The conscienceless Shmulik walked past Brava again.

  Fiction book (1998)

• He was a brutal, sadistic, conscienceless assassin.

  The Kremlin Letter (1970)

• Thus, intellectually captive and reality-deprived, young students can become easy prey for conscienceless ideological raptors who set upon them with more or less refined subtlety.

  Academic text (2003)

• The conscienceless criminal showed no remorse for his actions.

• Sociopaths are typically conscienceless, caring only about their own interests.

• The conscienceless CEO cut jobs while giving himself a bonus.

Synonyms

A

amoral

vsconscienceless

20 6.3

Not thinking about right or wrong when acting

implies absence of inner moral sense rather than mere indifference

U

unprincipled

vsconscienceless

• Offensive

8 6.6

Willing to do wrong to get what you want

lacks an inner sense of right rather than only principles

M

morally bankrupt

vsconscienceless

7 7.4

A person, group, or action that does not care about right and wrong

lacks an inner sense of right and wrong

U

unconscientious

vsconscienceless

8.8

Not careful about doing the right thing

completely lacks any sense of right or wrong

U

unmoral

vsconscienceless

• Archaic

7.9

Not thinking about whether something is right or wrong

refers to lacking an inner sense of right and wrong rather than neutral stance

Antonyms

M

moral

∞ 3.7

Concerned with ideas of right and wrong in people's actions

E

ethical

280 4.1

Following rules about what is right and wrong in people's actions

C

conscientious

49 5.9

Careful and serious about doing work the right way

How Conscientious

scrupulous

4 7.2

conscientious

49 5.9

careless

14 1.0

conscienceless

1 9.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology