The phrase "without scruples" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is willing to act without considering the ethical implications of their actions or to describe an action itself as being done without moral consideration. Example: The criminal committed the robbery without scruples, not caring about the consequences.
In response, the protesters tweeted: "Ada Colau says it's between private parties – people without scruples, like her and the police".
She concludes that Trabelsi was a "Machiavellian figure... intelligent, ambitious, calculating, manipulating and utterly without scruples or morals.
"We have to create the impression of mastery, eliminating without scruples or hesitation all those who do not think as we do".
"What they could never have known was that behind the mask Nowak presented to them was a man without scruples or decency".
"These acts were perpetrated by criminals without scruples who snatched innocent lives, most of them young people who had their whole lives ahead of them, who worked to overcome addictions, to study, to get ahead".
The Vatican found Maciel guilty of "very serious and objectively immoral acts... confirmed by incontrovertible testimonies" that represent "true crimes and manifest a life without scruples or authentic religious sentiment".
Smith argued that the issuance of bank notes in small denominations, which would be accepted by members of the public "without scruple," should be prohibited, because this practice permits "many mean people" (i.e., charlatans lacking sufficient reserves) to become "beggarly bankers," and ends up, when the fraud is exposed, rendering the currency worthless.
He senses something in the past that licenses violence against whites without scruple.
Refusing public access to her brother's works, she edited them without scruple or understanding.
The ex-minister says that the "whitewash" enables the security forces to believe they can continue to kill without scruple.
Jailing him for five years in 1986, the judge described him as "one of nature's fraudsters... a swindler without scruple or conscience".
