Similar words: scruple, quadruple, quadruplet, scrupulous, unscrupulous, unscrupulously, couplet, couple. Meaning: ['skruːpl] 
n. motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions.
n. motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions. 
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1 Have you no scruples about buying stolen goods?
2 Some persuasion would be required to overcome her scruples.
3 Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
4 He had no scruples about selling faulty goods to people.
5 He had no scruples about spying on her.
6 I don't have any scruples about taking her car?she's often borrowed mine.
7 I have my scruples, measly as they may be.
8 I overcame my moral scruples.
9 Crell in particular had no scruples about playing on his countrymen's cultural nationalism for the development of the fatherland's chemistry.
10 Predictably, Dominy managed to overcome such scruples offer he was appointed commissioner.
11 He could not say that he had scruples of conscience for not joining in the military training.
12 But the scruples would spawn in his head, giving a cynical taint to his image of himself.
13 Inside the Reich Rauschning's moral scruples would have appeared foolish, even suicidal.
14 In the rush not to be left behind, scruples about starvation and labour camps are forgotten.
15 So Coleridge had no scruples about challenging the doctrine of the Creation.
16 Other countries have no scruples about subsidies when it comes to keeping workers employed and preserving their skills.
17 Though their scruples were overcome, their objection pointed to their awareness that the ceremony was changing its meaning.
18 Inpart this reflected religious scruples since mechanical explanations for our behaviour were incompatible with religious teaching.
19 They are passive, we are told; moral scruples don't come into it.
20 He overcame his scruples and by 1846 took thirty-five wives, eight of them widows of Joseph Smith.
21 Edmund reluctantly surrenders his earlier scruples and takes a role opposite Mary.
22 To deaden, as to feelings or moral scruples; callous.
23 I have scruples touching the matter you know.
24 You resigned the place from conscientious scruples.
25 A man who can treat his family so must be completely without scruples.
26 He had a steely streak but his morals and scruples were beyond reproach.
27 Shakur has charisma, and, luckily,(www.Sentencedict.com) the less thankless role: at least his character has a vestige of scruples.
28 Perhaps if no one else thought it wrong to kill or steal we would be ill-advised to act on our present scruples.
29 She refused his advances and confounded a multitude of scholars assembled by him to overcome her scruples.
30 But when the celebs paraded for Reagan 20 years ago, Republicans had no such scruples.
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