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scruples
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Scruples is a 1980 television mini-series , based on the 1978 novel by Judith Krantz . It was produced by Warner Bros. Television and starred Lindsay Wagner . Scruples included the final screen appearance of Gene Tierney .
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n. motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions [syn: conscience , moral sense , sense of right and wrong ]
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n. (plural of scruple English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: scruple )
Usage examples of scruples.
Or I thought you might have a simple horror, quite apart from humanitarian scruples, of appearing publicly in connection with a murder trial.
As to the religious scruples of the Gymnosophist and his disgust at the sight of bleeding flesh, I should be more affected thereby if I had not sometimes asked myself in what essentials the suffering of grass, when it is cut, differs from the suffering of slaughtered sheep, and if our horror in presence of murdered beasts does not arise from the fact that our sensations belong to the same physical order as theirs.
Wix sighingly testified to the scruples she surmounted, seemed to ask what other line one COULD take with a young person whose experience had been, as it were, so peculiar.
But now when too late, when he heard the sound of his letter falling into the box, a thousand scruples filled his mind.
Louis felt none of the tender-hearted scruples of the brave old soldier.
The few faint scruples he felt were silenced by the thought of an old age spent in poverty.