Scrupulous
['skruːpjʊləs] or ['skrupjələs]
Definition
(adj.) having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; 'less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance' .
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Definition
(a.) Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.
(a.) Careful; cautious; exact; nice; as, scrupulous abstinence from labor; scrupulous performance of duties.
(a.) Given to making objections; captious.
(a.) Liable to be doubted; doubtful; nice.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Conscientious, punctilious, strict, nice.[2]. Cautious, careful, exact, vigilant.
Editor: Samantha
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Conscientious, dubious, diffident, punctilious, exact, cautious, nice, precise,reluctant
ANT:reckless, unscrupulous, unhesitating, confident, self-satisfied,self-complacent, eager
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Examples
- But, to that nature, the very unbounded trust reposed in him was bond and seal for the most scrupulous accuracy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Scrupulous care I will take, Mr. Sympson. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She was displeased; I thought unreasonably so: I thought her, on a thousand occasions, unnecessarily scrupulous and cautious: I thought her even cold. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She ascended to her bedroom and dressed herself with scrupulous care. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- We have said in walked Mr. Job Trotter, but the statement is not distinguished by our usual scrupulous adherence to fact. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It is rather late in the day for you to be scrupulous. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You have too good a right to a free pardon, to render you very scrupulous about peccadilloes. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- A more scrupulous woman than I was--a woman who had not set her heart on a gold watch and chain--would have found some excuses for him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Giles, dressed with scrupulous care in a full suit of black, was in attendance upon them. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Not many people are scrupulous about smuggling, when, without perjury, they can find an easy and safe opportunity of doing so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- So scrupulous for others, he continued, and yet so careless for herself! Jane Austen. Emma.
- You heard him sneer at my presuming to be scrupulous--you heard him say I had made a virtue of necessity in marrying him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His scrupulous) mind was coming ever closer to the goal of his ambition. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Moore was less scrupulous. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In one sense she is as scrupulous as, in another, she is unthinking. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You are over-scrupulous, surely. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But he had also the prejudices and scrupulous timidity of his persecuted people, and those were to be conquered. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You have not implied to me that the symptoms which--I am bound to testify--you watched with scrupulous care, were those of a fatal disease. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But as to counts, marquises, dukes, earls, and the like, I was not so scrupulous. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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