I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
moral
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Inside the Reich Rauschning's moral scruples would have appeared foolish, even suicidal.
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They are passive, we are told; moral scruples don't come into it.
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Nor was their acquisition of power to be moderated by moral scruple .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had a steely streak but his morals and scruples were beyond reproach.
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He overcame his scruples and by 1846 took thirty-five wives, eight of them widows of Joseph Smith.
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I respect your scruple , scour; but in this case I believe true delicacy requires you to do as I ask.
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In the rush not to be left behind, scruples about starvation and labour camps are forgotten.
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She refused his advances and confounded a multitude of scholars assembled by him to overcome her scruples.
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They are passive, we are told; moral scruples don't come into it.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dumont does not scruple to show the naked corpse, left on the edge of a ploughed field.