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Kane is an incredibly wealthy man, a newspaper baron with few scruples about journalism who attains immense power, only to see it start to fade near the end of his life.

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It wasn't any scruple of mercy, for Hicks was as cold-blooded a brute as ever glanced down a gun-barrel.

Here, you,” he growled, “was aught said to thee whereby thou hast a scruple to tell me how many guns defend the Cashmere Gate?

If he sometimes come across a precept which is perfectly clear and irrefutable, Donald does not scruple to ignore it.

Little Larkins had told all, and his father had no scruple in repeating it, and causing the investigation to be set on foot.

He appropriated it without scruple, and was soon joined by a troop of travelers bound for Marhala.

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On this page you'll find 97 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scruple, such as: anxiety, caution, censor, compunction, conscience, and demur.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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