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How to use scruple in a sentence

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There is a certain scattiness, as well as scruple, in the authors' methods.
But he did scruple to note that not all historians accepted this account of inebriate vandalism.
But more often new governments have stuck to them, though not always out of scruple.
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?
In that context, there is no scruple whatever in receiving money honestly and duly earned.
Without the introduction of such penalties, the hooligans of the sea will go unpunished and will continue to pollute the sea without scruple.
Freed from academic scruple, Rouault pushes his technique to the limits of the possible.
So I was left with my scruple, and had no idea as to how I was to resolve my doubt.
A great scruple arose even in the minds of the most confident Assassinates, whether the nocent and the innocent might be destroyed and perish together.
Well, of course it's a joke, but it contains a scruple of truth.
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.
The apprentice has to avoid, with maximum scruple, to acquire clients for the future drawing on clients from the office where he performs the training.
At the same time, the Adopting Act allowed candidates and ministers to scruple articles within the Confession.
There was often a tendency to join the two terms without scruple.
I have six or seven Instances more,... which will make such a Saxifragous Dose, that no scruple can stand before it.
And the US state secretary and defense secretary, touring the Demilitarized Zone along the Military Demarcation Line, made no scruple of letting loose hostile remarks against the DPRK, fanning up war fever.
Parvenu peoples, like parvenu individuals, hanker after ancestors, and peoples have as little scruple in forging family trees as have individuals.
Edward himself, now thoroughly enlightened on her character, had no scruple in believing her capable of the utmost meanness of wanton ill-nature.
Does this reflect a scribal scruple to have the element of universal heirhood incorporated, or is this a piety of Sara herself?
On the contrary, he despised such people for their lack of scruple.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Yet did not his Successors durably inherit that scruple, but some were anointed, and solemnly accepted the Diadem of regality.
May the physician call in a physician who, he knows, will not scruple to perform the therapeutic abortion on an unviable fetus?
I have given quinia as an antipyretic, but never in doses of more than a scruple.
I should make no scruple of frightening him within an inch of his life, for his good.
But it does not scruple to mark its disapproval by passively hindering him at every turn.
Does it mean that when you are a representative you will not scruple to skewer M. le Marquis?
He had given her indeed, she made no scruple of showing, plenty to consider.
For this reason we have had no scruple in dismissing it with a short sketch.
True, you may have a scruple of conscience as to the lawfulness of allowing a sin which you might prevent.
For this purpose, one scruple of ipecacuanha may be given in an ounce of water.
Now, your English tourists have always a residue of scruple about them which balks their genius.
It is not, therefore, without scruple that I address your honours in this matter.
As this was an order, the mate did not scruple about obeying it.
And only a man of peterman's lack of scruple could have done such a thing.
The meerschaum is good for flowers, I fancy, so have no scruple.
They did not scruple, as other Arabs did, to fight against their kinsmen.
And were I in your place, Anthony, faith I'd not scruple to do it.
Neither did they at all scruple, while I was by, to discharge what they had drank, to the quantity of at least two hogsheads, in a vessel that held above three tuns.
I have no scruple in saying, in the presence of our friends here, that I am a man who has, for some years, contended against the pressure of pecuniary difficulties.
He looked eminent, but he looked relaxed, and the lady beside him ministered freely and without scruple, it was clear, to this effect of his comfortably unbending.
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