How To Use Scruples In A Sentence
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The pagan deities' idols Baal and Ashera, on the other hand, had no such scruples.
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Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
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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
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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
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There are also those at the other end of the financial spectrum who have few scruples about money.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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"
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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
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Of course, many will feel scruples about criticising others for how they spend their money out of fear of sounding hypocritical.
Times, Sunday Times
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Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
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Of course, many will feel scruples about criticising others for how they spend their money out of fear of sounding hypocritical.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their pores were more magnified than their qualms; their scruples were invisible.
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Though their scruples were overcome, their objection pointed to their awareness that the ceremony was changing its meaning.
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We know what Hugh de Lusignan is; the man has the scruples of a snake.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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He had no scruples about publishing it: but where?
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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There are also those at the other end of the financial spectrum who have few scruples about money.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nor did he have any scruples about hitting below the belt.
The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
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He likens himself to the Puritan divines he studied in graduate school, whose religious scruples were part of their confession of faith.
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Their medical misgivings were reinforced by religious scruples, best expressed by the minister who thought chloroform ‘a decoy of Satan’.
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But many share her apparent lack of scruples.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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.
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Sandy worried sometimes that she had after all let her desires override her scruples, but Nika's own determination bolstered her.
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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
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Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
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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
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His scruples are never in doubt; he's as clear a bad guy as you could fathom while maintaining a semblance of authenticity.
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Success and social ascendancy favoured those lacking any scruples.
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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
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These scruples of mine are divisible into three points, which I shall, for your convenience, set out in a list.
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He had a steely streak but his morals and scruples were beyond reproach.
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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
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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.
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Some persuasion would be required to overcome her scruples.
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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
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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
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I have no principled objection to it , ie no objection based on moral scruples.
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His scruples got no further because his brain short-circuited, closing off everything except the exquisite glory of her hot little mouth on his.
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They were at pains to point out that she had no such scruples later, and made her exit bareheaded.
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She certainly had no scruples about serving married men, but she had many about marrying herself.
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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
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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
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Neither change has yet been enacted because political scruples intervened at some stage in the march of cynicism.
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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.
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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.
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I think they should be able to decline service for various reasons, religious scruples included.
Christianity Today
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Speaking to a broad and unsophisticated audience, he did not satisfy the scruples of some academicians, who found that he oversimplified complex problems.
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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
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a church they call heretical, should _dare_ to talk of our scruples
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
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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
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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.
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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.
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Predictably, Dominy managed to overcome such scruples offer he was appointed commissioner.
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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
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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
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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
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Or is it liberation from scruples that we desire?
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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.
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Some persuasion would be required to overcome her scruples.
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They had no scruples about the impurity of certain foods and some were non-vegetarian.
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She refused his advances and confounded a multitude of scholars assembled by him to overcome her scruples.
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Perhaps if no one else thought it wrong to kill or steal we would be ill-advised to act on our present scruples.
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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
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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.
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As a professional, she had few scruples about feeding the public what they wanted, irrespective of how distasteful.
RIOT
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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
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Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
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Nor did he have any scruples about hitting below the belt.
The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
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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
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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
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I think they should be able to decline service for various reasons, religious scruples included.
Christianity Today
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But many share her apparent lack of scruples.
Times, Sunday Times
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To deaden, as to feelings or moral scruples; callous.
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Predictably, Dominy managed to overcome such scruples offer he was appointed commissioner.
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Anyone with scruples about gambling should not work in a betting shop.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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But many share her apparent lack of scruples.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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He had no scruples about publishing it: but where?
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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Anyone with scruples about gambling should not work in a betting shop.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tilly was a good friend, but had no scruples about stealing your man, if she felt so inclined.
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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
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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
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Everywhere in the world they start the same way: young men with more ambition than opportunities, more greed than scruples, join the underworld.
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Nor did he have any scruples about hitting below the belt.
The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
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I overcame my moral scruples.
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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
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In any case, it's already too late for Howard to start having doubts or scruples.
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But many share her apparent lack of scruples.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nor did he have any scruples about hitting below the belt.
The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
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The person once closest to Ryan had no scruples about using Ryan's weaknesses against him.
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Let all crooked scruples vanish, let me hopelessly lose my way.
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But his rule was clouded by allegations of authoritarianism, corruption and a lack of scruples in dealing with his opponents.
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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.
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Neither change has yet been enacted because political scruples intervened at some stage in the march of cynicism.
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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
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_Our_ brightness and happiness air the brightness and happiness of faith; our cleanness is the cleanness of religious scruples.
The Cavalier
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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.
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But the ultimate example of Lincoln's constitutional scruples was emancipation.
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The social and ethical scruples thrown up by the science of new genetics are by now familiar.
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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