Sentence example with the word 'scruple'

scruple

ace, challenge, dot, fret, hold off, mistrust, point, reluctance, skepticalness, suspiciousness, withdraw

Definition n. a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains

Last update: May 4, 2016


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Hence they had no scruple about rooting out the old Irish from Ulster.   [noun]

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They that have an ill end will not scruple at an ill way.   [noun]

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He attacked his noble guest without scruple on the severity of his regimen.   [Please select]

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If you can be more useful elsewhere, have no scruple in leaving us.   [Please select]

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I feel it more and more plainly with each passing day; and several years must yet elapse ere this scruple becomes wholly needless.   [Please select]

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This appeared particularly to be the case when he heard Waverley's history, which he did not scruple to confide to him.   [Please select]

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Till lately this religious scruple seemed a valid excuse to the government, and those who urged it were let off service.   [Please select]

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We cannot share this scruple; for it would amount to nothing less than depriving Christianity of all distinctive character.   [Please select]

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To do so was a part of the game; and many worthy people did not scruple to correct the caprice of Fortune by dexterous jugglery.   [Please select]

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For, in fact, he was thinking of his sister, Arabella Churchill; and John Churchill, though he had made no scruple to profit by his sister's shame, had never forgiven it.   [Please select]

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Each time he reviewed the plan he got rid of a scruple or two, and by degrees began to like it exceedingly.   [Please select]

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