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Unscrupulous vs Vulpine - What's the difference?

unscrupulous | vulpine |

As adjectives the difference between unscrupulous and vulpine

is that unscrupulous is without scruples; immoral while vulpine is pertaining to a fox.

As a noun vulpine is

any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf .

unscrupulous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without scruples; immoral.
  • Contemptuous of what is right or honorable.
  • Antonyms

    * scrupulous * ethical * upstanding

    vulpine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a fox.
  • * 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia :
  • She dared not raise her eyes above the level of the tea-table, and she almost expected to see a spot of accusing vulpine blood drip down and stain the whiteness of the cloth.
  • Having the characteristics of a fox, foxlike; cunning.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf .
  • * 1980 , Michael Wilson Fox, The Soul of the Wolf , unnumbered page,
  • The family Canidae consists of two main subgroups, the vulpines (foxes) and the canines (wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dogs), and some intermediate “fox-dog” forms from South America.
  • A person considered vulpine (cunning); a fox.
  • See also

    * canine * lupine * Vulpini (tribe within subfamily Caninae) ----