overscrupulous

Example Sentences

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Most men would aver that he was overscrupulous, a man often rendered impotent by the severity of his own dedication.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia by Champney, James Wells

But, my dear James, you really are overscrupulous.

From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas

She had an industrious, scheming, not overscrupulous brain and—her hopes and plans.

From The Fortune Hunter by Phillips, David Graham

Women, then as now, ready to sacrifice themselves, are less ready to permit those dear to them to be overscrupulous.

From The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester by Wright Henderson, P. A. (Patrick Arkley)