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scruple
synonyms for scruple
- anxiety
- caution
- censor
- compunction
- conscience
- demur
- difficulty
- faltering
- hesitancy
- hesitation
- pause
- perplexity
- qualm
- reconsideration
- reluctance
- squeamishness
- superego
- twinge
- uneasiness
- reluctancy
- second thought
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How to use scruple in a sentence
Kane is an incredibly wealthy man, a newspaper baron with few scruples about journalism who attains immense power, only to see it start to fade near the end of his life.
The tangled history behind David Fincher’s Mank — and its link to Citizen Kane — explained | Alissa Wilkinson | December 4, 2020 | VoxIt wasn't any scruple of mercy, for Hicks was as cold-blooded a brute as ever glanced down a gun-barrel.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairHere, you,” he growled, “was aught said to thee whereby thou hast a scruple to tell me how many guns defend the Cashmere Gate?
The Red Year | Louis Tracy
If he sometimes come across a precept which is perfectly clear and irrefutable, Donald does not scruple to ignore it.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellLittle Larkins had told all, and his father had no scruple in repeating it, and causing the investigation to be set on foot.
The Daisy Chain | Charlotte YongeHe appropriated it without scruple, and was soon joined by a troop of travelers bound for Marhala.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne Sue
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