Crossword clues for scrupled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scruple \Scru"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scrupled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scrupling.] To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those
things which lawfully we may.
--Fuller.
Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine
worship.
--South.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: scruple)
Usage examples of "scrupled".
At least one member of the party had not hesitated to sacrifice his life for the others, nor had they scrupled at slaughtering all those who followed them.
Perhaps they would not have scrupled to traffic with our tormentors, or their go-betweens.
I have never scrupled against using my teeth in a brawl, not since I first bonded with the wolf.
She’d all but shoved the other Grannys aside taking the central place in the balcony row this morning, and she hadn’t scrupled to do it without so much as a beg-your-pardon, either.
She was all out of patience, the aching of her body for him was unbearable, and if she had known any manner of hurrying him she would not have scrupled to use it.
If that was what it took to make things clear at Castle Purdy, that was what it took, and they had not scrupled to do it.
I have scrupled to omit this note, as it contains some points worthy of notice.
Ansford’s peculiar, who—had not scrupled to track it to its source, though she had been clad only in her nightgown—not but what that was a more decent cloak to her opulent form than the dress she had worn earlier in the day!
Heinie had not scrupled to say that Rango was a lot more use on the show and a lot better person, even though not human, than a little floozie who just stood up and let a dummkopf of a husband throw knives at her.
And I haven't scrupled to let you know that so far as I was concerned he was an obnoxious little squirt and climber.