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overscrupulous

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After all, might there not be such a thing as an overscrupulous judgment of motive and action for the man of the world?

I don't like to see you letting success and—and all the rest of it pass you by, when other men, not so overscrupulous, do succeed.

Both were determined to make money when it was possible, and were, sometimes, not overscrupulous in their transactions.

Each class is rigidly sure of the rightness of its own ends and hence not overscrupulous about the means of attaining them.

Otherwise for ourselves we only want what we want when we want it, not being overscrupulous about the means we take to get it.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overscrupulous, such as: ceremonious, conscientious, conscionable, conventional, exact, and formal.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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