scruples
Example Sentences
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Sometimes, a billionaire has very questionable scruples as to the best ways to go about things.
From Los Angeles Times
Employees in these movies come to the conclusion their boss lacks scruples, boundaries or the qualifications to have the job.
Some may have otherwise been stolen by Western visitors with less scruples to be sold on the lucrative European and American artefacts market.
From BBC
At the start of the play, he’s a war hero with conspicuous scruples.
From Los Angeles Times
“Nevertheless, the State’s capacity to legislate pursuant to its own moral scruples is necessarily curbed by the Kansas Constitution and its Bill of Rights.”
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
