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scrupulous Adjective 1. taking great care to do what is fair, honest, or morally right 2. very careful or precise: scrupulous attention to detail [Latin scrupulosus] scrupulously adv
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scrupulous adjective 2. careful, strict, precise, minute, nice, exact, rigorous, meticulous, painstaking, fastidious, punctilious << OPPOSITE careless Translations (honesty) → unbedingt |
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Mainwaring will storm of course, but you easily pacify him; besides, the most scrupulous point of honour could not require you to wait for HIS emancipation. This brought him into relation with queer characters, some of whom were not altogether scrupulous in their methods of making a living, murder being an acceptable means to that end. As men of scrupulous honour set up a high standard of public conscience above the dead-level of an honest community, so men of that skill which passes into art by ceaseless striving raise the dead-level of correct practice in the crafts of land and sea. |
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