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Unprincipled

Being without principles; especially, being without right moral principles; also, characterized by absence of principle.

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Dishonorable 84% connected

Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

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Dishonorable 84% connected

Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

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Application noun · 78% connection

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

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Asystole noun · 78% connection

A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

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Autocracy noun · 78% connection

Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.

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Backbone noun · 78% connection

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

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Cardiac arrest noun · 78% connection

absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent ab…

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Cardiopulmonary arrest noun · 78% connection

absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent ab…

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Casuistry adjective · 78% connection

The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the l…

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Conscience noun · 78% connection

Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.

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Corruption noun · 78% connection

The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putre…

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Cynical adjective · 78% connection

Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.

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Dark adjective · 78% connection

Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…

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Darkness noun · 78% connection

The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.

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Degeneracy adjective · 78% connection

The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.

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Depravation noun · 78% connection

Detraction; depreciation.

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Depravity noun · 78% connection

The state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or hea…

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Disability noun · 78% connection

State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness,…

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Doctrine noun · 78% connection

Teaching; instruction.

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Electro-bioscopy noun · 78% connection

A method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or…

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