scruple
Example Sentences
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The idea that Saddam would scruple to support al Qaeda seems preposterous even now.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
They were both these outsiders from the boroughs with tremendous life force and ambition with a shared, I think, lack of scruple or ethical core, for whom winning was the only moral measure.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024
In the chaotic tangle of dust, horseflesh and steel, finding an unexpected advantage was not difficult for those unyoked from scruple.
From Salon • Aug. 10, 2024
The pontiff lamented the “poverty into which they are often forced, victims of injustice and the inequality of a throwaway society that hurries past without seeing them and without scruple abandons them to their fate.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2021
Thompson was dashing and ambitious, "handsome in feature and figure," occasionally courageous and exceedingly bright, but untroubled by anything so inconveniencing as a scruple.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing scruple
Grade 11, List 3
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The Scarlet Letter
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"The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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