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Definition of scruple in English: scruplenoun ˈskruːp(ə)lˈskrupəl 1usually scruplesA feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action. 顾虑；（感到）良心不安；犹豫 I had no scruples about eavesdropping 我对偷听没有丝毫顾忌。 mass noun without scruple, politicians use fear as a persuasion weapon 政客们毫无顾忌地利用恐惧作为劝说的武器。 Example sentencesExamples - They had no scruples about the impurity of certain foods and some were non-vegetarian.
- Or is it liberation from scruples that we desire?
- Speaking to a broad and unsophisticated audience, he did not satisfy the scruples of some academicians, who found that he oversimplified complex problems.
- In any case, it's already too late for Howard to start having doubts or scruples.
- Conan Doyle had no scruples about bringing him back from the dead after he drowned with Moriarty in the Reichenbach Falls at the end of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The person once closest to Ryan had no scruples about using Ryan's weaknesses against him.
- Their pores were more magnified than their qualms; their scruples were invisible.
- The social and ethical scruples thrown up by the science of new genetics are by now familiar.
- The movie takes us back to sci-fi of fantastic beasts, megalomaniac scientists and of course the eternal debate of science without scruples turning into a runaway train.
- Neither change has yet been enacted because political scruples intervened at some stage in the march of cynicism.
- She certainly had no scruples about serving married men, but she had many about marrying herself.
- Success and social ascendancy favoured those lacking any scruples.
- His scruples are never in doubt; he's as clear a bad guy as you could fathom while maintaining a semblance of authenticity.
- He recognized the claims both of social convention and of personal inclination, and no man better evoked the power of passion to overwhelm the scruples of even the most highly principled person.
- Tilly was a good friend, but had no scruples about stealing your man, if she felt so inclined.
- Sandy worried sometimes that she had after all let her desires override her scruples, but Nika's own determination bolstered her.
- Their medical misgivings were reinforced by religious scruples, best expressed by the minister who thought chloroform ‘a decoy of Satan’.
- He asserted that the government had no scruples about divesting a majority of its shares in the telecoms companies, as long as it would increase their benefit to the country.
- Stalin was of course a secular utopian and materialist, and Applebaum seems to have found no evidence that he ever had any moral scruples or hesitations about the Gulag.
- Everywhere in the world they start the same way: young men with more ambition than opportunities, more greed than scruples, join the underworld.
Synonyms qualms, twinge of conscience, compunction, hesitation, reservations, second thoughts, doubt(s), misgivings, pangs of conscience, uneasiness, reluctance principles, standards, values, morals, morality, moral concern, ethics, conscience, creed, beliefs 2historical A unit of weight equal to 20 grains, used by apothecaries. 〈史〉药剂师所用药剂重量单位（等于20格令） give, daily, one scruple of sulphate of quinine Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- 2.1archaic A very small amount of something, especially a quality.
〈古〉（尤指品质）微量 in the choice of a second wife, one scruple of prudence is worth a pound of passion Example sentencesExamples - A scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience.
- Well, of course it's a joke, but it contains a scruple of truth.
Synonyms little bit, small amount, particle, degree, speck, fragment, scrap, crumb, grain, morsel, taste, soupçon, shred, mite, dash, drop, pinch, ounce, touch, tinge, dab, jot, iota, whit, tittle, jot or tittle, atom, inch, snippet, sliver, smattering, scintilla, hint, suggestion, whisper, trifle
verb ˈskruːp(ə)lˈskrupəl no object, with infinitive and usually with negative Hesitate or be reluctant to do something that one thinks may be wrong. 顾忌；犹豫 she doesn't scruple to ask her parents for money 她毫不顾忌向她父母要钱。 Example sentencesExamples - Northern newspapers claimed, ‘Shannon has not scrupled to take such steps as have given these pro-slavery fighting rowdies and Missourians possession of public arm belonging to Kansas.’
- One very black mark he had to his name; but the matter was hushed up at the time, and so defaced by legends before I came into those parts that I scruple to set it down.
- He scrupled to do evil that good might come of it, and in consequence refused to crush his adversaries because he recognized that he would need to seize illegal powers in order to do it.
- Capitalists have never scrupled about redundant production
- At least, you may safely infer, said Philo, that the foregoing hypothesis is so far incomplete and imperfect; which I shall not scruple to allow.
- By one of those generous turns that make Davie unpredictable he nevertheless acknowledges what Thomas finally achieved, not scrupling to call it great poetry.
- They have not scrupled to damage the shrine in the past, when they put down the 1991 uprising.
- In Central America, I witnessed civil war fought between guerrilla groups intent on imposing totalitarian tyranny on their societies, opposed by armies that didn't scruple to resort to massacre.
Synonyms hesitate, be reluctant, be loath, have qualms about, have scruples about, have misgivings about, have reservations about, stick at, think twice about, baulk at, demur about/from, mind doing something recoil from, shrink from, hang back from, shy away from, flinch from, drag one's feet/heels over, waver about, vacillate about informal boggle at archaic disrelish something
OriginLate Middle English: from French scrupule or Latin scrupulus, from scrupus, literally 'rough pebble', (figuratively) 'anxiety'. Definition of scruple in US English: scruplenounˈskrupəlˈskro͞opəl 1usually scruplesA feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action. 顾虑；（感到）良心不安；犹豫 I had no scruples about eavesdropping 我对偷听没有丝毫顾忌。 without scruple, these politicians use fear as a persuasion weapon 政客们毫无顾忌地利用恐惧作为劝说的武器。 Example sentencesExamples - Their pores were more magnified than their qualms; their scruples were invisible.
- Neither change has yet been enacted because political scruples intervened at some stage in the march of cynicism.
- Stalin was of course a secular utopian and materialist, and Applebaum seems to have found no evidence that he ever had any moral scruples or hesitations about the Gulag.
- Sandy worried sometimes that she had after all let her desires override her scruples, but Nika's own determination bolstered her.
- Conan Doyle had no scruples about bringing him back from the dead after he drowned with Moriarty in the Reichenbach Falls at the end of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Or is it liberation from scruples that we desire?
- Speaking to a broad and unsophisticated audience, he did not satisfy the scruples of some academicians, who found that he oversimplified complex problems.
- Success and social ascendancy favoured those lacking any scruples.
- The person once closest to Ryan had no scruples about using Ryan's weaknesses against him.
- Their medical misgivings were reinforced by religious scruples, best expressed by the minister who thought chloroform ‘a decoy of Satan’.
- They had no scruples about the impurity of certain foods and some were non-vegetarian.
- Tilly was a good friend, but had no scruples about stealing your man, if she felt so inclined.
- Everywhere in the world they start the same way: young men with more ambition than opportunities, more greed than scruples, join the underworld.
- He recognized the claims both of social convention and of personal inclination, and no man better evoked the power of passion to overwhelm the scruples of even the most highly principled person.
- He asserted that the government had no scruples about divesting a majority of its shares in the telecoms companies, as long as it would increase their benefit to the country.
- The social and ethical scruples thrown up by the science of new genetics are by now familiar.
- In any case, it's already too late for Howard to start having doubts or scruples.
- She certainly had no scruples about serving married men, but she had many about marrying herself.
- His scruples are never in doubt; he's as clear a bad guy as you could fathom while maintaining a semblance of authenticity.
- The movie takes us back to sci-fi of fantastic beasts, megalomaniac scientists and of course the eternal debate of science without scruples turning into a runaway train.
Synonyms qualms, twinge of conscience, compunction, hesitation, reservations, second thoughts, doubt, doubts, misgivings, pangs of conscience, uneasiness, reluctance principles, standards, values, morals, morality, moral concern, ethics, conscience, creed, beliefs 2historical A unit of weight equal to 20 grains, used by apothecaries. 〈史〉药剂师所用药剂重量单位（等于20格令） Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- 2.1archaic A very small amount of something, especially a quality.
〈古〉（尤指品质）微量 Example sentencesExamples - A scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience.
- Well, of course it's a joke, but it contains a scruple of truth.
Synonyms little bit, small amount, particle, degree, speck, fragment, scrap, crumb, grain, morsel, taste, soupçon, shred, mite, dash, drop, pinch, ounce, touch, tinge, dab, jot, iota, whit, tittle, jot or tittle, atom, inch, snippet, sliver, smattering, scintilla, hint, suggestion, whisper, trifle
verbˈskrupəlˈskro͞opəl no object, with infinitive and usually with negative Hesitate or be reluctant to do something that one thinks may be wrong. 顾忌；犹豫 she doesn't scruple to ask her parents for money 她毫不顾忌向她父母要钱。 Example sentencesExamples - Capitalists have never scrupled about redundant production
- By one of those generous turns that make Davie unpredictable he nevertheless acknowledges what Thomas finally achieved, not scrupling to call it great poetry.
- They have not scrupled to damage the shrine in the past, when they put down the 1991 uprising.
- At least, you may safely infer, said Philo, that the foregoing hypothesis is so far incomplete and imperfect; which I shall not scruple to allow.
- Northern newspapers claimed, ‘Shannon has not scrupled to take such steps as have given these pro-slavery fighting rowdies and Missourians possession of public arm belonging to Kansas.’
- One very black mark he had to his name; but the matter was hushed up at the time, and so defaced by legends before I came into those parts that I scruple to set it down.
- He scrupled to do evil that good might come of it, and in consequence refused to crush his adversaries because he recognized that he would need to seize illegal powers in order to do it.
- In Central America, I witnessed civil war fought between guerrilla groups intent on imposing totalitarian tyranny on their societies, opposed by armies that didn't scruple to resort to massacre.
Synonyms hesitate, be reluctant, be loath, have qualms about, have scruples about, have misgivings about, have reservations about, stick at, think twice about, baulk at, demur about, demur from, mind doing something
OriginLate Middle English: from French scrupule or Latin scrupulus, from scrupus, literally ‘rough pebble’, (figuratively) ‘anxiety’. |