scruples
Example Sentences
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As a child, I loved the board game Scruples and “The Book of Questions,” social experiments masquerading as parlor games.
From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2022
Scruples did not respond to a request for comment.
From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2020
So she decides to do what any clotheshorse dreams of: she opens a luxury boutique, called Scruples, on Rodeo Drive, and becomes the queen of Los Angeles fashion.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2019
She turned to fiction at the age of 50 with Scruples.
From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2019
Tindal is his text-book: his breviary the Fable of the Bees;— T' Improve In Morals Mandevil I read, And Tyndal's Scruples are my settled Creed.
From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Dobson, Austin
Vocabulary lists containing scruples
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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Charlotte's Web
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