Use "scruples" in a sentence

1. that even the biggest knaves have some scruples

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2. doctor, and of a special kind, who could lay his scruples aside, and

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3. Shoes give away the scruples, I

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4. And so shining were his scruples

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5. “Of course you wouldn’t – we don’t share the same scruples, remember,” she teased

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6. Little notice was taken of this until Prempeh approached, when curiosity overcame other scruples, and there was a rush to get a closer view of the King

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7. I do have a few scruples left

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8. The Negro pacificos, many of whom were armed with rifles shipped down at the time but were absolutely without discipline, had no such scruples, and pilfered at every opportunity

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9. For my part, it was impossible to resist his attraction—his vampiric influence meant that any merely human scruples went out the window as soon as he turned the force of his will on me

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10. The word also occurs in Heb 5:14 and Rms 14:1: “But him that is weak in faith you shall receive, yet not for decision of scruples

11. He was fat, bald and totally nude clothing and scruples

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12. He, on the other hand, never had any scruples, so he could never be accused of hypocrisy, or of abandoning his principles

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13. As a result the tax collectors were considered no better than traitors, social outcasts, misfits, shunned by both the clergy and the secular world for their lack of scruples and dishonest dealings

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14. openly and completely, without any hesitation or sense of scruples

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15. She'll be happy to overlook her scruples

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16. He had no moral scruples when it came to interpersonal activities because he had realised early in life that one should take advantage of every possibility that presented itself

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17. Fernanda had to swallow her scruples and their guests of the worst sort like kings as they muddied the porch with their boots, urinated in the garden

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18. You should realize what I’m talking about if I mention Chicago – a great city, but not one in which people in power have scruples

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19. He never seemed to be concerned with scruples, and even after being overcome by a brain tumor, his apparent repentance wasn’t very sincere, as the special pointed out

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20. man who had no scruples or conscience when it came to

21. One of my concerns is that some people without scruples or conscience could attempt to rob those sick and weak people of their donated food

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22. There are some higher ups in the business that do have scruples, but others could care less one way or the other

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23. What is a mercenary, but a killer for money with no principles, no scruples

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24. Without scruples science becomes nothing more than a

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25. The Germans also displayed a lack of scruples with their V weapons

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26. She asked herself, can you really afford these scruples? You may very well spend the rest of your life in prison if you don't get some decent legal help

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27. He has no moral scruples or conscience

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28. somewhat liberal man of scruples

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29. A discreet bonus of 500 francs helped erase the few professional scruples of the notary, who signed the contracts as a witness

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30. They will appeal to your ethical scruples in order to get you to pay for the service they have given you

31. He was a man without scruples, only cared about

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32. Did he have to get rid of his scruples about giving away a fellow man’s secrets before talking? Finally Fielding saw that the struggle was over — she had won

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33. Modern publishers have absolutely no scruples about what they force us to do

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34. I didn’t miss him for long as I could hire someone no less talented but with fewer business scruples and he too set up a small-scale industry as if to show me that business can be clean as well

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35. The plaint Hindu knew no scruples, and we could not understand why the Muhammadan should be troubled with them

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36. The people she’d been investigating were without scruples

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37. ‘They have scruples about dealing in drugs but that doesn’t stop them from dealing in birds

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38. Some of the women were prostitutes and had no scruples about buying favours with their charms

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39. And indeed it seemed to him wholly, amazingly monstrous that his great new work should be being held up a day by any scruples of any sort whatever

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40. If she had needed reassuring, this happy morning warm and scented would have done it; but now that the night was over, a time when those who are going to have doubts do have them, and the dark sodden days when if facts are going to be blurred they are blurred, she felt no scruples nor any misgivings--she had simply got to the beginning of the most wonderful holiday of her life

41. She believed so firmly what he had told her over there away in Kökensee, where of course a man had to say things in order to get a beginning made, about the friendly frequent journeyings of other people, she had so heartily accepted his assurance that it was absurd and disgraceful in its suggestion of evil-mindedness not to travel frankly anywhere with anybody--"Are we not the children of light, you and I?" he had asked her--the things a man says! he thought; but they should not be brought up against him in this manner, clad in an invincible armour of acceptance--"And shall we be hindered in our free comings and goings by the dingy scruples of those heavy others, the groping and afraid children of darkness?"--that plainly the idea that she was doing anything even remotely wrong had not occurred to her

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42. ) He had no scruples to

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43. Everyone tries to prostitute everything for money without showing scruples about it

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44. Furthermore I add my own derision to that of the reader because the girl obviously desired me and my scruples as Al"s friend prevented me from satisfying her wish

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45. I did not tell you afraid I might arouse your scruples

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46. They both wondered if the kissing that was interrupted by Robbie"s scruples a decade ago would resume

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47. Who'd have suspected that Gilbert had such delicate scruples? For some reason, he wanted to drop Simon Smythe in it, but his strange code wouldn't let him make a proper job of it, wouldn't let him say anything definitely helpful to the police

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48. And in accepting it, I have no scruples in saying all the revised versions have left these same words just where the King James Version left them, and with the same connections

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49. To which Don Quixote returned, "I know not what more there is to be said; I only guide myself by the example set me by the great Amadis of Gaul, when he made his squire count of the Insula Firme; and so, without any scruples of conscience, I can make a count of Sancho Panza, for he is one of the best squires that ever knight-errant had

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50. "That may be," replied Don Quixote; "however, I will do what you suggest; though I have my own scruples about it

51. The duke had now descended to the courtyard of the castle, and going up to Tosilos he said to him, "Is it true, sir knight, that you yield yourself vanquished, and that moved by scruples of conscience you wish to marry this damsel?"

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52. "And yet," I interrupted, "you have no scruples in completely ruining all hopes of her perfect restoration, by thrusting yourself into her remembrance now, when she has nearly forgotten you, and involving her in a new tumult of discord and distress

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53. "We'll respect Catherine's filial scruples

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54. recompense for all her pains, and all the scruples of conscience she had

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55. You may, therefore, comprehend, that being of no country, asking no protection from any government, acknowledging no man as my brother, not one of the scruples that arrest the powerful, or the obstacles which paralyze the weak, paralyzes or arrests me

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56. He stated his scruples and the difficulties of the case; it was the honor of M

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57. He has no scruples, no morals

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58. The person to whom I addressed my scruples asked me where your father had acquired his property? I answered, 'In Greece

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59. Well, I have not intercepted your confidence, and yet I know all that as well as you, and I have no conscientious scruples

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60. "Ah, my dear sir! What?—after the varied relations I have had the happiness to sustain towards you, can it be that you know me so little as to ask such a thing? Ask me to lend you half a million and, although such a loan is somewhat rare, on my honor, you would annoy me less! Know, then, what I thought I had already told you, that in participation in this world's affairs, more especially in their moral aspects, the Count of Monte Cristo has never ceased to entertain the scruples and even the superstitions of the East

61. An old man, widower, unkempt of hair, in bed, with head covered, sighing: an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death of a septuagenarian, suicide by poison

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62. However, the death bed seemed to overrule such scruples

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63. He would have used an intermediary, someone loyal, ambitious, and with absolutely no scruples

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64. But he was an implacable foe and completely without scruples

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65. Sam, not knowing that his opponent was his father, had no such scruples, and pressed forward, slashing with his sword

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66. Cole brought him at last to hug himself on the cheap bargain he considered the purchase of my imaginary jewel was to him, at no more than three hundred guineas to myself, and a hundred to the brokers: being a slender recompense for all her pains, and all the scruples of conscience she had now sacrificed to him for this first time of her life; which sums were to be paid down on the nail, upon delivery of my person, exclusive of some no inconsiderable presents that had been made in the course of the negociation: during which I had occasionally, but sparingly been introduced into his company, at proper times and hours; in which it is incredible how little it seemed necessary to strain my natural disposition to modesty higher, in order to pass it upon him for that a very maid: all my looks and gestures ever breathing nothing but that innocence which the men so ardently require in us, for no other end than to feast themselves with the pleasure of destroying it,

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67. But he had religious scruples, which hindered the execution of such a plan

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68. Yet I had my scruples about leaving Holmes

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69. It was not a position for argument, for a display of scruples or feelings

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70. Monygham's thinking, acting, individuality extremely dangerous to himself and to others, all his scruples vanishing in the proud feeling that his devotion was the only thing that stood between an admirable woman and a frightful disaster

71. She was not above selling a poor grade had no scruples about black-guarding the other lumber dealers

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72. I think Bridey's scruples only extend to her sleeping under the same roof with me

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73. The scruples are all on Bridey's part, anyway; the widow is madly tough

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74. His inexperience, his errors, his utter lack of business judgment and his scruples about close dealing were the same as Hugh’s

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75. “You didn’t have any scruples about going after the Russian Mob in Paris last year, and I’ve never seen that in your brief

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76. Yet despite my scruples, or perhaps because of them, I’d begun to feel that I knew less than I had on New Year’s Day

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77. Thinking himself without the pale of humanity, he was restrained by no scruples and he employed his extraordinary gifts of dexterity and imagination, which he had received by way of compensation for his extraordinary uglinesss, to prey upon his fellow-men

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78. "Perhaps he has conscientious scruples founded on his own unfitness," said Dorothea, who was interesting herself in finding a favorable explanation

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79. Casaubon had many scruples: he was capable of a severe self-restraint; he was resolute in being a man of honor according to the code; he would be unimpeachable by any recognized opinion

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80. Having the scruples of rectitude in our souls, we are above the meanness of injuring him—rather we meet all his claims on us by active benefits; and the drawing of cheques for him, being a superiority which he must recognize, gives our bitterness a milder infusion

81. But I had more upon my Mind than my own Safety; and tho’ ’twas not my Custom to shoot the Bridge—like most, I disembarqued in Upper Thames Street, then rejoin’d my Waterman at Billingsgate—upon this Occasion, I sneer’d at the other Passengers’ Scruples and sail’d straight thro’ with my Hair flying and my Heart pounding, whilst Susannah clung to me in Fear, crossing herself when she dar’d let go of me, and mutt’ring of Angels in Heaven

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82. But the stock market itself has no time for such scientific scruples

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83. The effect of all this is that the public investor’s protection lies less in his own critical faculty than in the scruples and ethics of the offering houses

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84. ‘And yet,’ I interrupted, ‘you have no scruples in completely ruining all hopes of her perfect restoration, by thrusting yourself into her remembrance now, when she has nearly forgotten you, and involving her in a new tumult of discord and distress

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