overscrupulous
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Most men would aver that he was overscrupulous, a man often rendered impotent by the severity of his own dedication.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was quite irresponsible, and apparently not overscrupulous in either contracting debts or the use of the property of others.
From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Arthur Jerome Eddy
Well, you must forgive me if I have seemed overscrupulous.
From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Marie Corelli
And so we started one summer morning, some twenty strong, all young, valiant, and not overscrupulous, armed, I need scarcely say, to the teeth, and mounted on the rough but fleet ponies of the country.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala
She had an industrious, scheming, not overscrupulous brain and—her hopes and plans.
From The Fortune Hunter by David Graham Phillips
