How To Use Scruple In A Sentence

The pagan deities' idols Baal and Ashera, on the other hand, had no such scruples.
Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
He scarce scrupled a penny after I gave him leave to try a sword dint upon it. The Fair Maid of Perth
Moreover it seems to me atrocious that we who insist on seven millions of Catholics supporting a church they call heretical, should dare to talk of our scruples (conscientious scruples forsooth!) about assisting with a poor pittance of very insufficient charity their 'damnable idolatry.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
But his prodigality, which is excessive, after a time brought him to London; and the bishop imagined that, with his help, my scruples would at last be conquered. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor

There are also those at the other end of the financial spectrum who have few scruples about money. Times, Sunday Times
As a matter of fact, my brother painted very few things, at any stage of his career, as mere representations of reality, unimbued by some inventive or ideal meaning: in the rare instances when he did so, he naturally felt an indolent comfort, and made no scruple of putting the feeling into words — highly suitable for being taken _cum grano salis_. Old Familiar Faces
Although in theory they may have scruples about eating meat, they are happy to overlook them if the meat is presented cleansed of any prior history. Bad Food Britain
Then he responded by, apparently, unfiring them and saying he's offended but he'll unfire them, which makes him look at best like an equivocator and at worst like he doesn't have any scruples. Edwards On The Bloggers: "Personally Offended," But Believes In "Giving Everyone A Fair Shake"
Those scruples and that refinement against which he warned her, she herself thought might be overstrained, and to gratify unnecessary punctilio, the short period of existence be rendered causelessly unhappy. Cecilia
Of course, many will feel scruples about criticising others for how they spend their money out of fear of sounding hypocritical. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
He was a man without a conscience, and so long as his own ends and the ends of his friends were served, he would never scruple to empty the woman's girnel or toom her last basin, and leave her no morsel of food or drink at the long-run. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Of course, many will feel scruples about criticising others for how they spend their money out of fear of sounding hypocritical. Times, Sunday Times
Their pores were more magnified than their qualms; their scruples were invisible.
Though their scruples were overcome, their objection pointed to their awareness that the ceremony was changing its meaning.
We know what Hugh de Lusignan is; the man has the scruples of a snake. HERE BE DRAGONS
He had no scruples about publishing it: but where? Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
Indeed, Esmond’s general, who was known as a grumbler, and to have a hearty mistrust of the great Duke, and hundreds more officers besides, did not scruple to say that these private reasons came to the Duke in the shape of crown-pieces from the French King, by whom the The History of Henry Esmond
There are also those at the other end of the financial spectrum who have few scruples about money. Times, Sunday Times
Even Homer felt this need, and did not scruple to introduce not only second sight, but gods and goddesses, and to bring their supernatural agency to bear directly on the personages of his chant, and that far more freely than any Norse sagaman. Eric Brighteyes
Nor did he have any scruples about hitting below the belt. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
He likens himself to the Puritan divines he studied in graduate school, whose religious scruples were part of their confession of faith.
Their medical misgivings were reinforced by religious scruples, best expressed by the minister who thought chloroform ‘a decoy of Satan’.
But many share her apparent lack of scruples. Times, Sunday Times
Braying an ordinary fool in a mortar is an unpromising job; but an extraordinary official leatherhead, PLUS thin-skinned conscience, and religious scruples, requires the upper and nether mill stone. At the Mercy of Tiberius
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.
Sandy worried sometimes that she had after all let her desires override her scruples, but Nika's own determination bolstered her.
Someone with no scruples, who knows the Albanian coast like the back of his hand and runs the fastest boat in the Adriatic. THE KEYS OF HELL
Capitalists have never scrupled about redundant production
Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
Indeed, Esmond's general, who was known as a grumbler, and to have a hearty mistrust of the great Duke, and hundreds more officers besides, did not scruple to say that these private reasons came to the Duke in the shape of crown-pieces from the French King, by whom the The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne
However, I gulped down my scruples with the morning cocktail which we all took at the bar of the Widow Joplin, and listened patiently while Mr. Rucker gasconaded about the wonderful shots he had made, the tremendous leaps his horse had taken over gullies and logs. Dialect Tales
It was highly probable, too, that among the victims about to be transported were many who had been his own subjects; for these African potentates do not scruple to make merchandise of their own people, when cash or "cowries" run short, and their enemies have been too strong to be captured. Ran Away to Sea
On ascertaining from the Frenchmen who landed that their ship was a privateer, and that they were still at war with the English, I said nothing about the treasure, determined rather to let it remain concealed for ever than allow them to possess it, for I knew that though I might claim it they would without scruple take it from me. The Two Shipmates
His scruples are never in doubt; he's as clear a bad guy as you could fathom while maintaining a semblance of authenticity.
Success and social ascendancy favoured those lacking any scruples.
It was a sea-chest, legacy from her roving father, who had given it to her mother, and often enough had Aunt Senath expressed scruples about allowing her to keep a gift obtained so godlessly. The White Riband A Young Female's Folly
He wouldn't scruple to cheat his own mother if there was money in it for him.
These scruples of mine are divisible into three points, which I shall, for your convenience, set out in a list.
He is a man without scruple - he has no conscience.
He had a steely streak but his morals and scruples were beyond reproach.
Although in theory they may have scruples about eating meat, they are happy to overlook them if the meat is presented cleansed of any prior history. Bad Food Britain
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.
Sir Ch. Not satisfied with your own acknowledgment; as I know that young ladies are too ant to make secrets of a passion that is not in itself illaudable [I know not why, when proper persons make enqui-ries, and for motives not ungenerous]; I asked your elder sister, who scrupled not to own hers, whether there were any one man, whom you preferred to an-other? Sir Charles Grandison
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.
And we tell our graduate students that they must never take such risks, construing as scruple what in fact is timidity.
He lied and did not even scruple about it
A scruple is a little sharp stone formerly used as a measure of weight. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
Some persuasion would be required to overcome her scruples.
Presently, however, his inner anxieties grew upon him so much that his book fell on his knee, and he lost himself in a multitude of small scruples and torments, such as beset all persons who live alone. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I
His world of irresponsible young men let loose in the playground of colonial Ireland set the tone for much of Anglo-Irish fiction, notably the ‘rollicking’ novels of Charles Lever who did not scruple to plagiarize him.
She wouldn't scruple to tell a lie if she thought it would be useful.
No such scruples had restrained him from unleashing new conflict with a nearer neighbour. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
Overhearing my own name barked into the transmitter, I listened without scruple. Branded
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.
I have no principled objection to it , ie no objection based on moral scruples.
His scruples got no further because his brain short-circuited, closing off everything except the exquisite glory of her hot little mouth on his. One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze
And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities, similitudes, examples, as upon particular confutations and solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objection; breeding for the most part one question as fast as it solveth another; even as in the former resemblance, when you carry the light into one corner, you darken the rest; so that the fable and fiction of Scylla seemeth to be a lively image of this kind of philosophy or knowledge; which was transformed into The Advancement of Learning
That might have been unfair — she remembered how her husband, Claud, had sweated to get Koestler out of jail in Spain, only to be rewarded with apostasy — but in his last two decades Koestler abandoned every kind of scruple and objectivity and became successively bewitched by “theories” of levitation, ESP, telepathy, and UFOs. The Zealot
They were at pains to point out that she had no such scruples later, and made her exit bareheaded.
(Note the discrimination against the "unchaste" woman in the statutory law; whether this scruple was closely adhered to by the local courts in bastardy actions is uncertain, but as noted, there was no reference to the previous character of the mother in any of the southern Avalon cases herein.) Gutenber-e Help Page
She certainly had no scruples about serving married men, but she had many about marrying herself.
He attaches his particular attentions to the Empress Theodora, who even here retains her quick wit, undulled by scruples. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
Is it the dishonest claimants or those members of the professions who stand to gain so much and lose so little by conniving at their lack of scruple?
Even highly exalted men, like the authors of apocryphal books, Daniel, for instance, and Enoch, committed, to aid their cause, and without the shadow of a scruple, acts which we should call frauds.
I am normally a law-abiding citizen but I had not a single scruple.
And sometimes, not having the fear of poetical, or rather of unpoetical precisians and martinets before his eyes, he did not even scruple to naturalize words for his own use from foreign springs, such as exsufflicate and deracinate; or to coin a word, whenever the concurring reasons of sense and verse invited it; as in fedary, intrinse, intrinsicate, insisture, and various others. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
Julian Avenel had intrigued without scruple with both parties -- yet bad as he was, he certainly would not have practised aught against the guest whom Lord James had recommended to his hospitality, had it not been for what he termed the preacher's officious inter-meddling in his family affairs. The Monastery
Day, on the contrary, was amazingly cheerful, particularly when the sun shone; never troubled his head about what was to happen when his fun was over: on the contrary, thought his fun ought to last for ever because it was pleasant, was quite vexed when it was put a stop to, and had no scruple in railing at his rival; whose only object, as it seemed to him, was to overshadow and put an end to all the happiness that was to be found. Parables From Nature
It is convenient to reserve significant parts of the world as profane, and even ‘dirty,’ in order to preserve our ability to act in them without scruple.
They often scruple to approach a corpse, saying that the 'mawn' will seize them and that it fastens upon them in the night when asleep. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
The tendency to divinize the totem is at least as much dependent on the positive sense of unity with it, as on the negative scruples which limit the relation in each particular case. Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
Probole, or Prolatio, which the most orthodox divines borrowed without scruple from the Valentinians, and illustrated by the comparisons of a fountain and stream, the sun and its rays, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Neither change has yet been enacted because political scruples intervened at some stage in the march of cynicism.
A royalist divine also, during the Protectorate, did not scruple to quibble in the following prayer, which he was accustomed to deliver: -- "O Lord, who hast put a sword into the hand of thy servant, Oliver, _put it into his heart_ ALSO -- to do according to thy word. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829
I think it would be regarded as sacrilegious to bomb the World Heritage sites of Egypt, but I am not sure we have the same scruples about Iraq.
I had the faults common to my age, was talkative, a glutton, and sometimes a liar; made no scruple of stealing sweetmeats, fruits, or, indeed, any kind of eatables; but never took delight in mischievous waste, in accusing others, or tormenting harmless animals. The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nor could I have dreamed the heteroclite crewmen I had met aboard Tzadkiel's ship, nor the jibers; and yet both had come from Briah, even as I; and Tzadkiel had not scrupled to take them into his service. The Urth of the New Sun
A scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience.
Every kind of contumelious reproach is heaped on the heads of the working men who dare to replace him when he strikes; and he does not scruple to use under such conditions weapons more convincing than the most opprobrious epithets. The Promise of American Life
They did not scruple to bomb innocent civilians.
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.
I think they should be able to decline service for various reasons, religious scruples included. Christianity Today
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.
Speaking to a broad and unsophisticated audience, he did not satisfy the scruples of some academicians, who found that he oversimplified complex problems.
What crossgrained fiend has at once inspired you with what I suppose you wish me to call politic doubts and scruples of conscience, but which I can only regard as symptoms of fear and disaffection? Saint Ronan's Well
You say that you cannot leave your parish because you fear to give scandal; you fear to pain the poor people, who have been good to you and who have given you money, and your scruple is a noble one; I appreciate and respect it. The Lake
a church they call heretical, should _dare_ to talk of our scruples The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
If this temptation were to win out over their religious scruples, they would be unable to plant new crops when the rains begin again. Cultural Anthropology
Eight credits per week went to the company, in advance, for room and board; the rest he spent over the fat man's bar or gambled away at the fat man's crooked games-for Bominger, although engaged in vaster commerce far, nevertheless allowed no scruple to interfere with his esurient rapacity. Gray Lensman
The reality is that far from undermining Bertie they undermine themselves and show themselves to be nothing but posers and hypocrites with few of the principles they demand of Bertie and no scruples.
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.
Predictably, Dominy managed to overcome such scruples offer he was appointed commissioner.
To make such an arrangement with a servant who knew not her connection with his young master, was extremely repugnant to her; but the exigence was too urgent for scruples, and there was nothing to which she would not have consented, to prevent the fatal catastrophe she apprehended. Cecilia
In the time of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn wished to give the post of abbess to a friend, but King Henry had scruples on the subject, for the proposed abbess had a somewhat shady reputation; he wrote, "I would not for all the gold in the world clog your conscience nor mine to make her a ruler of a house, which is of so ungodly a demeanour, nor I trust you would not that neither for brother nor sister I should so bestain mine honour or conscience. From John O'Groats to Land's End
Its been 31 years, since the law was introduced, yet the nation shows no scruples in abiding by the most futile system. Global Voices in English » Pakistan: Condemning Gojra Riots
For since they scruple not to reckon that which I call the compound The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of
Or is it liberation from scruples that we desire?
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.
She wouldn't scruple to tell a lie if she thought it would be useful.
The greatest men, those of the first and most leading taste, will not scruple adorning their private closets with nudities, though, in compliance with vulgar prejudices, they may not think them decent decorations of the staircase, or salon. Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Some persuasion would be required to overcome her scruples.
Since that time I have been more venturous, and I find now that others do not scruple to use it as well as I. [Just what Descartes did. He 'innovated' prior to 1637, when he took Hariot's well recognized notation in algebra to work out his problems in geometry for which Hariot himself would have thanked him.] Thomas Hariot
They had no scruples about the impurity of certain foods and some were non-vegetarian.
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.’
She refused his advances and confounded a multitude of scholars assembled by him to overcome her scruples.
Perhaps if no one else thought it wrong to kill or steal we would be ill-advised to act on our present scruples.
Valentine is fictional, a character in Judith Krantz's Scruples, a book that positively sizzles with brand-name-dropping, put there not as paid product placement but as verisimilitude of an especially glamorous kind. Archive 2008-07-01
For an emplaster, take of castorium a dram and a half, of opium half a scruple, mixed both together with a little water of life, make two small plasters thereof, and apply them to the temples. Anatomy of Melancholy
You give it up! — for what? — for a betise, for an absurd scruple. The History of Pendennis
“A reg-lar ol’ shicer!” was the unanimous opinion, expressed without scruple. Australia Felix
Beware,beware!he'll cheat'ithout scruple,who can without fear.
a priest unhampered by scruple
They have not scrupled to damage the shrine in the past, when they put down the 1991 uprising.
But vices are necessary to his existence as well as virtues: he is at war with a tribe that may destroy his own; and treachery without scruple, cruelty without remorse, are essential to him; he feels their necessity, and calls them _virtues_! Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete
It is only slightly frustrating occasionally that one is forced to read the surtitles and miss some of the subtler action but that is a minor scruple.
They were confident they could administer to minds and hearts diseased the certain specific laid down in the book, admeasured to the twentieth part of a scruple. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860
After James's convenient flight to France, only a minority in the convention parliament so much as expressed scruples about the form in which the transfer of kingship was to take place.
When the Hamel people heard how the affair had ended they rubbed their hands, and with no more scruple than their Town Counsellor, they laughed over the ratcatcher, who, they said, was caught in his own trap. The Red Fairy Book
As a professional, she had few scruples about feeding the public what they wanted, irrespective of how distasteful. RIOT
Let's stop sentimentalising the fuddy-duddies who cling to outmoded ‘ethical’ concepts and start applauding those with the courage to brush away the cobwebs of scruple and get on with making money!
If this temptation were to win out over their religious scruples, they would be unable to plant new crops when the rains begin again. Cultural Anthropology
The general impression seemed to be, that as an explanation of Mr Gregsbury's political conduct, it did not enter quite enough into detail; and one gentleman in the rear did not scruple to remark aloud, that, for his purpose, it savoured rather too much of a 'gammon' tendency. Nicholas Nickleby
Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
Nor did he have any scruples about hitting below the belt. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
After a brief conversation, finding her sentiments unchanged, and hearing from her lips a protestation that, though it were to cost her her life, she would never swerve from the principles she had professed at their last meeting, he exclaimed desperately, By God, Florida, your scruples shall not deprive me of the fruit of my toils. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
The decoction and infusion of this were considered emetic, and great relief was said to have been afforded by it in periodical headaches, vertigoes, etc.; one scruple of the fresh or one drachm of the dried root and leaves was employed as an emetic and cathartic. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
He had now no scruple about giving her time to arrive, but she didn't arrive, and when he went away still missing her he was quite profanely and consentingly sorry. The Altar of the Dead
The Abbess's Norman pride of birth, and the real interest which she took in her niece's advancement, overcame all scruples; and the venerable mother might be seen in unwonted bustle, now giving orders to the gardener for decking the apartment with flowers -- now to her cellaress, her precentrix, and the lay-sisters of the kitchen, for preparing a splendid banquet, mingling her commands on these worldly subjects with an occasional ejaculation on their vanity and worthlessness, and every now and then converting the busy and anxious looks which she threw upon her preparations into The Betrothed
I think they should be able to decline service for various reasons, religious scruples included. Christianity Today
But many share her apparent lack of scruples. Times, Sunday Times
To deaden, as to feelings or moral scruples; callous.
Predictably, Dominy managed to overcome such scruples offer he was appointed commissioner.
Anyone with scruples about gambling should not work in a betting shop. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, Goldman became known as the savviest and most prestigious firm on the street in part because it had no scruples about simultaneously betting against products it was selling. Legislating a Conscience on Wall Street
No such scruples had restrained him from unleashing new conflict with a nearer neighbour. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
But many share her apparent lack of scruples. Times, Sunday Times
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
Fanny had not a word to say against its becomingness, and, excepting what remained of her scruples, was exceedingly pleased with an acquisition so very apropos. Mansfield Park
At Rome, in the keenest time of her degringolade, when there was gambling even in the holy temples, great ladies (does not Lucian tell us?) did not scruple to squander all they had upon unguents from The Works of Max Beerbohm
He had no scruples about publishing it: but where? Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
The man scrupled to perjure himself
Well, of course it's a joke, but it contains a scruple of truth.
Anyone with scruples about gambling should not work in a betting shop. Times, Sunday Times
Tilly was a good friend, but had no scruples about stealing your man, if she felt so inclined.
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.
SECRET, because the secret was absolutely necessary to the preservation of their office, so do the Inquisitors in partibus falsify and illude without the least scruple of conscience, in order to put the people of this country off their guard. Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
He had more than O'Connell's dread to pass irretrievably outside the law, although he might not have scrupled to drive the proverbial carriage and six through law's usual dubieties of expression, particularly in certain sections of the Victorian Education Acts. As one of the earliest Irish colonists from the old country, he soon rose to the leading position amongst his fellow-colonist Irishmen. Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities, similitudes, examples, as upon particular confutations and solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objection; breeding for the most part one question as fast as it solveth another; even as in the former resemblance, when you carry the light into one corner, you darken the rest; so that the fable and fiction of Scylla seemeth to be a lively image of this kind of philosophy or knowledge; which was transformed into a comely virgin for the upper parts; but then The Advancement of Learning
He too pronounces ex cathedra upon the characters of his contemporaries; and though he scruples not to deal out praise, even lavishly, to the lowest reptile in Grubstreet who will either flatter him in private, or mount the public rostrum as his panegyrist, he damns all the other writers of the age, with the utmost insolence and rancour — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
It is perfectly true that there are mysteries, nudities, parts of the soul not shameful but sensitive, depths, personalities, last foldings of thought and feeling, which would cost horribly to uncover, and which an honorable and natural scruple would never permit us to lay bare, without the remorse of violated modesty. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
There is nothing to prevent him except moral scruple; for Alberic, after all, is a poor, dim, dwarfed, credulous creature whom a god can outsee and a lie can outwit. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring
He was twenty-five years old then, and he had demonstrated to his community thoroughly that he had courage, that he was crafty, and that he went to his end and got results, without stopping for overnice scruples of honour. A Certain Rich Man
Everywhere in the world they start the same way: young men with more ambition than opportunities, more greed than scruples, join the underworld.
That is the odd thing about my life: the things I longed intensely to do I would not let myself do, not from any religious or moral scruple, but from some inexplicable fastidiousness or scrupulosity which is yet as active as ever, although I am sure that it would not be able to hold its own could these favorable conditions be repeated, but would be overcome by the imperious and fully grown desires which, by long repression, or by unsatisfactory diversion, have grown to be so strong. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
Pelion upon Ossa, and then, perhaps, we shall be treated to a bill of pains and penalties if we scruple to admit, and act accordingly, that a promise to pay specie is specie, no matter whether the promissor be government or individual, solvent or bankrupt. "Cato" on constitutional "money" and legal tender. In twelve numbers from the Charleston Mercury.
His Clerk, Nickem, who was afflicted with no such darkness, but who ridiculed the idea of scruple in an attorney, often took part against him. The American Senator
It's interesting to note that the term "scruple" had at least three different definitions—and not all were for weight. British Had Too Many But French Have None
Nor did he have any scruples about hitting below the belt. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
I overcame my moral scruples.
They did not scruple to bomb innocent civilians.
And it appeared afterwards that during the night the Biluchis had recounted many fabulous incidents, all tending to show that the sahib was a very important as well as a very ingenious Firangi, so that this reputation, coupled with an offer of good pay, overcame any scruples the men might retain. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
Who has not at moments felt the scruple, which is with us always regarding animal life, following the signs of animation further still, till one almost hesitates to pluck out the little soul of flower or leaf? Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
In any case, it's already too late for Howard to start having doubts or scruples.
But many share her apparent lack of scruples. Times, Sunday Times
Nor did he have any scruples about hitting below the belt. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
It'seemed to her now that she could marry him without the remnant of a scruple.
` That all have revolted, that they are become unprofitable, that is, none who does good, no not one; their throat is an open sepulcher; there is no fear of God before their eyes, '(Psalm 5: 10; 14: 3) he deplores, truly, the impiety of his own age; yet Paul (Romans 3: 12) does not scruple to extend it to all men of every age: and with justice; for it is not a mere complaint concerning a few men, but a description of the human mind when left to itself, destitute of the Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
The person once closest to Ryan had no scruples about using Ryan's weaknesses against him.
Under the conditions, when he met Bates, he would probably be told that Jenkins, underkeeper and Territorial lance corporal, had resolved to end the vicious career of a hoodie crow, and had not scrupled to reach the wily robber with a bullet. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley
Let all crooked scruples vanish, let me hopelessly lose my way.
But his rule was clouded by allegations of authoritarianism, corruption and a lack of scruples in dealing with his opponents.
This absurd scruple is expressed almost in the same words by the continuator of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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.
Neither change has yet been enacted because political scruples intervened at some stage in the march of cynicism.
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.
Partisans are very good at recognizing disarray and incompetence on their side of the aisle, but they tend to think the other side is intimidatingly capable and unburdened by scruples or normal human vulnerabilities. Washington is bad at scheming
The villain made no scruple of committing murder.
I heartily wish that the same tenderness of conscience in all things may be seen, which if not, it will hardly be called a scruple of tenderness, but a cavil of malignity. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
_Our_ brightness and happiness air the brightness and happiness of faith; our cleanness is the cleanness of religious scruples. The Cavalier
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
By fineounce and imposts I got and grew and by grossscruple gat I grown outreaches — ly: murage and lestage were my mains for Ouerlord’s tithing and my drains for render and prender the doles and the tribute: Finnegans Wake
Her grandfather suppressed his Christian scruples and consulted both a Persian astrologer and an old pagan haruspex to be sure that the stars and the omens were favorable to the wedding.
But the ultimate example of Lincoln's constitutional scruples was emancipation.
The social and ethical scruples thrown up by the science of new genetics are by now familiar.
They made thousands of families homeless without scruple.
But his hard-wrought, quick-spoken little wife at his elbow "hooted" his scruples and, thinking of her growing lads, welcomed with unmixed satisfaction the coming of "the meenister. The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills

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