scruples in English

noun

1

a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action.

I had no scruples about eavesdropping

synonyms: qualms, compunction, pangs/twinges of conscience, hesitation, reservations, second thoughts, doubt(s), misgivings, uneasiness, reluctance

2

a unit of weight equal to 20 grains, used by apothecaries.

Oil of the seed, given from half a scruple to half a dram, in some liquor, or a spoonful of juice in some wine, taken before the fit comes on, and the person is put to bed, cures quotidians and quartans.

verb

1

hesitate or be reluctant to do something that one thinks may be wrong.

she doesn't scruple to ask her parents for money

synonyms: hesitate to, be reluctant to, be loath to, have qualms about, have scruples about, have misgivings about, have reservations about, think twice about, balk to, demur to, recoil from, shrink from, shy away from, flinch from

noun

• qualms, compunction, pangs/twinges of conscience, hesitation, reservations, second thoughts, doubt(s), misgivings, uneasiness, reluctance
• moral sense, conscience

noun

• qualm, misgiving

verb

• hesitate to, be reluctant to, be loath to, have qualms about, have scruples about, have misgivings about, have reservations about, think twice about, balk to, demur to, recoil from, shrink from, shy away from, flinch from

Use "scruples" in a sentence

1. Scruples or beliefs?

2. We'll respect Catherine's filial scruples.

3. 8 I overcame my moral scruples.

4. 5 He had no scruples about spying on her.

5. He had no scruples about selling faulty goods to people.

6. 24 You resigned the place from conscientious scruples.

7. 23 I have scruples touching the matter you know.

8. I have my scruples, measly as they may be.

9. 1 Have you no scruples about buying stolen goods?

10. To deaden, as to feelings or moral scruples; callous.

11. Some persuasion would be required to overcome her scruples.

12. 22 To deaden, as to feelings or moral scruples; callous.

13. 7 I have my scruples, measly as they may be.

14. 2 Some persuasion would be required to overcome her scruples.

15. Predictably, Dominy managed to overcome such scruples offer he was appointed commissioner.

16. 28 synonyms for Compunction: guilt, misgiving, qualm, scruples, regret, reluctance, sorrow

17. 4 He had no scruples about selling faulty goods to people.

18. 26 He had a steely streak but his morals and scruples were beyond reproach.

19. He had a steely streak but his morals and scruples were beyond reproach.

20. 15 So Coleridge had no scruples about challenging the doctrine of the Creation.

21. 13 Inside the Reich Rauschning's moral scruples would have appeared foolish, even suicidal.

22. 25 A man who can treat his family so must be completely without scruples.

23. 21 Edmund reluctantly surrenders his earlier scruples and takes a role opposite Mary.

24. 19 They are passive, we are told; moral scruples don't come into it.

25. 6 I don't have any scruples about taking her car?she's often borrowed mine.

26. 14 In the rush not to be left behind, scruples about starvation and labour camps are forgotten.

27. A person who has no conscience or scruples is an example of an Amoral person

28. 10 Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.

29. 3 Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.

30. I am looking for a witness who wants to win at all costs with no scruples whatsoever.

31. Scruples; to have manners; May also be spelt Brought-upsie WestIndian/Caribbean in orient - Barbados, WHUT.

32. The nonage can not enter bar to not have scruples about inside the scope by them.

33. 30 But when the celebs paraded for Reagan 20 years ago, Republicans had no such scruples.

34. "Do you have scruples about that old headman in the temple?"The sea pumice disagrees a way.

35. Shakur has charisma, and, luckily, the less thankless role: at least his character has a vestige of scruples.

36. 12 But the scruples would spawn in his head, giving a cynical taint to his image of himself.

37. But the scruples would spawn in his head, giving a cynical taint to his image of himself.

38. 18 Inpart this reflected religious scruples since mechanical explanations for our behaviour were incompatible with religious teaching.

39. 29 She refused his advances and confounded a multitude of scholars assembled by him to overcome her scruples.

40. 17 Though their scruples were overcome, their objection pointed to their awareness that the ceremony was changing its meaning.

41. 11 He could not say that he had scruples of conscience for not joining in the military training.

42. 20 He overcame his scruples and by 1846 took thirty-five wives, eight of them widows of Joseph Smith.

43. 16 Other countries have no scruples about subsidies when it comes to keeping workers employed and preserving their skills.

44. 9 Crell in particular had no scruples about playing on his countrymen's cultural nationalism for the development of the fatherland's chemistry.

45. Business and social interaction with people who have few scruples about honesty or sexual morality exposes one to unwholesome influences.

46. 27 Shakur has charisma, and, luckily,(www.Sentencedict.com) the less thankless role: at least his character has a vestige of scruples.

47. Crell in particular had no scruples about playing on his countrymen's cultural nationalism for the development of the fatherland's chemistry.

48. 28 Perhaps if no one else thought it wrong to kill or steal we would be ill-advised to act on our present scruples.

49. Any scruples that he ever had on that score he had removed for himself by realizing that she was a Curmudgeon.

50. Blackguardly: 1 adj lacking principles or scruples Synonyms: rascally , roguish , scoundrelly dishonest , dishonorable deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive