Copyright © 2020 LoveToKnow. But, once free, he had no scruple in cheating the imperial brigand of his blackmail. Similar words: scrupulous, couple, a couple of, scrub, scrunch, scrutiny, crumple, scrutinize. At the same time he had no scruple about borrowing from predecessors or contemporaries; in fact he did so in the most open manner. Thus, amongst agricultural castes, those engaged in vegetable-growing or market-gardening are inferior to the genuine peasant or yeoman, such as the Jat and Rajput; whilst of these the Jat who practises widow-marriage ranks below the Rajput who prides himself on his tradition of ceremonial orthodoxy - though racially there seems little, if any, difference between the two; and the Rajput, again, is looked down upon by the Babhan of Behar because he does not, like himself, scruple to handle the plough, instead of invariably employing low-caste men for this manual labour. Fouillee (q.v.) At Valangay, where he was sent as a prisoner of state, he sank contentedly into vulgar vice, and did not scruple to applaud the French victories over the people who were suffering unutterable misery in his cause. Where he detects or suspects the insertion of fabulous matter he has no scruple in saying so. I do not scruple to say that she plays extremely well. internal factors that prevent a person from behaving in a certain manner, Janet has no scruples about mistreating people who mistreat her. , Elaine’s lack of scruples allowed her to keep the lost money without any qualms. The civil war that followed his death, the endless revolutions of Agrigentum, where the weaker side did not scruple to call in Christian help, hindered any real Saracen occupation of eastern Sicily. A little before this Gregory V., at the end of 996, had been compelled to flee from' the city; and the wily and ambitious Greek had now no scruple in accepting the papal tiara from the hands of Crescentius. Hence it is that what names theirs carried, ours do the like, and the Fathers make no scruple at it - no more need we" (Sermons, vol. 2 Some persuasion would be required to overcome her scruples. Knowledge of this scheme is said to have shortened the life of the unfortunate Anne, and many did not scruple to say that her husband had made away with her. 3-7; and the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh do not scruple to claim ancestry from Joseph and the daughter of an Egyptian priest at the seat of the worship of the sun-god (xli. His cruelty, his utter want of scruple, and his good fortune made him a terror to all Italy. To pretend to have any scruple about buying smuggled goods, though a manifest encouragement to the violation of the revenue laws, and to the perjury which almost always attends it, … Taught by experience and adversity, they did not scruple to enter into an ministry, alliance with their old enemies, and a coalition ministry 1893' was formed from the Left, the Clericals and the Poles. Examples of scruple The left with its scruples about the world's first socialist country and its fear of providing grist to the right's mill. Examples of scruple in a Sentence Verb a tabloid journalist who has never scrupled to reveal the most intimate details about the lives of celebrities First Known Use of scruple Noun (1) In Austria the army was now supreme, and the appointment of Prince Felix Schwarzenberg as head of the government was a guarantee that its power would be used in a reactionary F sense without weakness or scruple.