Honest
Honest adjective - Being in the habit of telling the truth.
Usage example: at least the weatherman is honest and doesn't pretend to be able to predict the unpredictable
Unscrupulous
Unscrupulous adjective - Not guided by or showing a concern for what is right.
Nearby Word: unscrupulously
Both words in one sentence
- Furthermore, is he tough, greedy and stern, but extremely honest and fair and caring to his employees and family or deeply is he an uncaring, ruthless, unscrupulous robber baron?
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Unscrupulous Hero: Jonas, good guy dark actions both in episode 7 where he kills four people and describes it as adding to his death tally and implied in his past where he was a horrible person as a teenager and he clings to his resolve not to use his powers to keep himself honest.
- In later life, he put his faith in the unscrupulous Lu Yi, and later still trusted in his scheming children and relatives over the more upright and honest ones, often with fatal consequences to the latter.
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