scruple

Example Sentences

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The idea that Saddam would scruple to support al Qaeda seems preposterous even now.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

They were both these outsiders from the boroughs with tremendous life force and ambition with a shared, I think, lack of scruple or ethical core, for whom winning was the only moral measure.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

In the chaotic tangle of dust, horseflesh and steel, finding an unexpected advantage was not difficult for those unyoked from scruple.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2024

The pontiff lamented the “poverty into which they are often forced, victims of injustice and the inequality of a throwaway society that hurries past without seeing them and without scruple abandons them to their fate.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2021

In manner he was cold and imperious, and he was without scruple in the furtherance of his ambitions.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson