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Scrupling

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.

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scrupling

vb. (present participle of scruple English)

Usage examples of "scrupling".

Perhaps you have carried it around without scrupling to clean it, but I think that you are more responsible than that.