(n.) A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
(n.) Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.
(n.) Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.
(v. i.) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
(v. t.) To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.
(v. t.) To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their mutual enmity toward the West would in the end triumph over any scruples of that nature, as we see graphically in Iraq today.
(2) "Since then there has been silence, as if, under the pressure of contemporary change, there was no more moral scruple and concern, no new substance to be spun.
(3) I am not going to tread on private (and public) grief in the case of Miliband, other than to say that, when saddled with a leader they regard as a loser, the Tories traditionally have no scruples in unseating the incumbent.
(4) A sensationalist and scruple-free press seems eager to collude in their “noble lie”: that a Middle Eastern militia, thriving on the utter ineptitude of its local adversaries, poses an “existential risk” to an island fortress that saw off Napoleon and Hitler .
(5) "The company has acted without scruples and without any compassion for the victims."
(6) Scruple also makes it necessary to point out that the gap between the Lib Dems and Labour is within the margin of polling error, so the Labour third place may not be definite.
(7) "Without consideration, scruples or respect, our family misfortune is being put on display and marketed," Ulrich Busch told Stern magazine's website .
(8) In this article, two cases are presented that illustrate that the principles underlying medical practice and religious scruples are often the same.
(9) (4) The extension of the instruments of traffic legislation to immediate measures by the police--preliminary or "mini" suspension of a person's driving license by resort to preventive rights by the police?--meets with constitutional or legal scruples.
(10) To claim the crown, should he trust Melisandre, whose mysterious powers and zero scruples about parricide could make him king?
(11) Part of the Ministry of Defence, but employing arms company executives as well as civil servants, Deso quickly learned to chase export orders without too many scruples.
(12) Colleagues have no scruples in the tactics they employ to silence female colleagues – "The leadership cuts our microphones off," she says – or through intimidation.
(13) It required the party's home affairs person to set aside any personal scruple and throw political red meat to the angry hang-'em-and-flog-'em lions in the conference hall.
(14) If they sell businesses that cause harm, or close them down, they argue that all that will happen is that someone with fewer scruples may just step into the space.
(15) To promote the selling of arms in Remembrance week suggests a man with either no scruples or very poor judgment.
(16) I didn't have time to deal with someone else's heartache or their moral scruples vis-a-vis ditching an apparently iron-clad prior engagement.
(17) Society can’t afford too many scruples about the privacy of those who provoke such suspicions.
(18) The face has a vague familiarity; Howard recalls that this depressed-looking figure is a lecturer in the English department, a man who, 10 years earlier, had produced two tolerably well known and acceptably reviewed novels, filled, as novels then were, with moral scruple and concern.
(19) But he also upset corporate social responsibility advocates by showing himself willing to throw former scruples and do deals with TNK investors just months after he had threatened to sue them.
(20) Although he had no scruples about violating the right to life, he was a fanatic about regulations.
Scrupulous
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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Life-threatening or lethal toxicity was encountered when these phenomena were not scrupulously observed.
(2) Invariably in these films the visuals are scrupulously authentic, but the "message" is very much in line with the values of their human creators.
(3) A plea is made for scrupulous care to avoid starch powder contamination of the operative field.
(4) And yet, according to his widow Sheila Ravenscroft, this photograph documents the first stage in a complicated and scrupulous filing system that Peel had maintained for his record collection since 1969.
(5) He is always scrupulous to keep his views to himself and enjoys the respect of politicians of all stripes, who recognise the skills of a top operator.
(6) Bernie Sanders has scrupulously avoided throwing punches at political rivals during a career that has lasted close to half a century .
(7) Telling an institution to “keep its mouth shut” is, quite simply, a threat – entirely different from expressing the hope that the media might want to temper its criticism and scrupulously check its facts.
(8) However, he added: “We are going to be scrupulous in investigating cases where we are concerned about the impartiality and accountability that is taking place.” Earlier this week, Obama hosted a White House summit to deal with the fallout from the unrest in Ferguson and concerns about police brutality and stereotyping that the president said have resonated in communities across the country.
(9) Infection is a potential risk in diabetic men using intracavernosal injection therapy and those offered it should be informed of the importance of a scrupulous sterile technique and the need to seek urgent medical help for decompression if an erection persists for more than 4-6 h.
(10) Of course, even though we brights will scrupulously insist that our word is a noun, if it catches on it is likely to follow gay and eventually re-emerge as a new adjective.
(11) This favourable series demonstrates that nowadays with the improved technology and with a scrupulous pharmacological protocol transluminal coronary angioplasty can be performed with a low incidence of complications and excellent results, further assessing its high potential in the treatment of ischemic coronary artery disease.
(12) Even with the most scrupulous IUD insertion technics, uterine perforation is a recognized complication.
(13) The live footage on the sports channel ESPN was scrupulously presented in line with post-Reithian attitudes to the depiction of private crisis: as soon as it became apparent that Muamba was in extremis, the camera pulled back to a long, high angle, which showed only a distant huddle.
(14) These findings indicate the importance of scrupulous hand washing before and after handling each infant and of enforcement of other basic nursery techniques.
(15) One critic, for example, in a very patient, and indeed in every respect but one a positively scrupulous, reading of one of Eliot's anti-semitic poems, "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar," glancingly commented, "the question whether [it is] anti-semitic is obviously not a pressing one".
(16) From analysis of the results of scrupulous examination of 66 patients with pathological shadows up to 3 cm in diameter found in the lungs during X-ray examination the authors established that peripheral carcinoma of the lung accounts for 65.2% of all asymptomatic accidentally revealed structures in the lungs.
(17) In the absence of added Mg2+ untreated tRNA was acylated in the presence of spermine, but tRNA from which Mg2+ had been scrupulously removed was not.
(18) Each stone is then carefully cleaned by hand and scrupulously recorded before being put into storage.
(19) The results of our study indicate that a more scrupulous enforcement of legislative measures concerning anti-tetanus vaccination is recommended.
(20) Recommended biography Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum (2004) is a masterly study of Wodehouse's achievement, and includes a scrupulous and clear-eyed examination of the wartime scandal which dispenses with much of the accumulated hyperbole.