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Definition of scrupulous in English: scrupulousadjective ˈskruːpjʊləsˈskrupjələs 1(of a person or process) careful, thorough, and extremely attentive to details. the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail Example sentencesExamples - This is always an issue for the scrupulous scholar - what to enlarge upon, what to jettison - but this is the only equivocation about this impressive book, written with both passion and clarity.
- Ghost World and The Royal Tenenbaums would not be among my favorites for the year if not for their scrupulous production design.
- He periodically returns to a monochromatic style, punctuated by scrupulous forays into vivid chromatic declarations.
- Brown is scrupulous in presenting what is, and what is not, known about these situations.
- He seems as active in the process now as he ever was, appropriately scrupulous in the crediting and remembering of what was given, by whom and when.
- He inherited standards of economy in design and of scrupulous execution from Domenico Veneziano and Fra Angelico, though he lacked the imaginative powers of either.
- Their compositions were symmetrical and bathed in an even light; only perfect examples of cultivars in full bloom were included, and individual blooms were painted with scrupulous accuracy.
- Probably the most painstaking part of the job is the scrupulous documentation process.
- It has never been so scrupulous in its methods, so inclusive in the questions it asks - and so incurious about what might be called the aesthetic life of a building.
- She is scrupulous about disclosing her sources and acknowledging her debts while insistent that her aesthetic judgments are based on what she has looked at hard and pondered.
- The effects of such scrupulous husbandry are manifest by the way in which the cultivated and natural landscape merge into one another in a rare reciprocity.
- In those days Bob was scrupulous about fully crediting Gerry - and appropriately crediting everyone in the office.
- To be sure, Meyer makes such large-scale historical revisions and theoretical shifts only implicitly and through the lens of scrupulous historical detail.
- Both he and Taylor are scrupulous in conveying how the photographs would have looked to Dodgson's audience.
- The first ‘Station’ gives us a curved cross suspended from a short, rusty chain, the figure in lean, scrupulous profile.
- However, right at the beginning he is scrupulous in distinguishing the two terms.
- The scrupulous fabrication of the low-relief wall ensembles in this show approaches the perverse.
- Weinberg's strengths as an art historian owe largely to his scrupulous attention to the visual field.
- Individually and as a group, Cubist images demand the viewer's scrupulous attention.
- You sense only the labor-intensive detailing of a boat modeler, no doubt scrupulous but also antiquarian.
Synonyms careful, meticulous, painstaking, thorough, assiduous, sedulous, attentive, diligent, conscientious, ultra-careful, punctilious, searching, close, elaborate, minute, studious, rigorous, particular religious, strict pedantic, fussy - 1.1 Very concerned to avoid doing wrong.
she's too scrupulous to have an affair with a married man Example sentencesExamples - The title's meanings remain only provisionally understood, but the term's significance was bound up in notions of learning, the righteousness of tradition, and the scrupulous observance of ritual obligation.
- This research provides evidence that developing a corporate culture that stresses honesty and scrupulous behavior is not only the right thing to do, but produces real savings to the cooperative as well.
- Seeking to protect his pregnant wife, gangster Gui decides to give himself up to the authorities, only to find his act of self-sacrifice results in the loss of everything to less scrupulous rivals.
Synonyms honest, honourable, upright, upstanding, high-minded, righteous, right-minded, moral, ethical, good, virtuous, principled, proper, correct, just, noble, incorruptible, anti-corruption, conscientious, respectable, decent
Derivatives noun skruːpjʊˈlɒsɪtiˌskrupjəˈlɑsədi But it did acquire, I think, very much during the Second World War, as I say, a reputation for scrupulosity and honesty, which it hasn't lost to this day. Example sentencesExamples - She says I'm suffering from a kind of extremism, an obsessive-compulsive disorder called scrupulosity.
- At the apex of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, there's a scene where Ransom Stoddard has a tortured burst of scrupulosity.
- The legal scrupulosity with which the Normans pursued wickedness could be turned against them.
- She rejected the prevailing model of salvation that too often produced scrupulosity and extreme forms of passion piety (often involving self-mutilation).
- They favored the use of general absolution and found that the practice of private confession encouraged scrupulosity.
- A web search reveals that religious OCD has a name: scrupulosity.
noun ˈskruːpjʊləsnəsˈskrupjələsnəs They feel they have to make some worthy comment, treat the city with some kind of moral scrupulousness and say something appropriate. Example sentencesExamples - Rather, it was a stormy month of shifting positions, escalating tactics and fraying tempers in which neither side won any awards for consistency or scrupulousness.
- His turning to God first showed itself in a new scrupulousness in morals.
- It's a lazy reflex to draw congruencies between a writer's manner and their prose, but her paragraphs have the same scrupulousness, the same deliberate observation.
- Such moral scrupulousness and lack of compromise is regarded as an essential fruit of salvation.
- And yet its very scrupulousness blunts the impact.
- Invariably, FDA's scrupulousness has benefited science and saved millions of lives.
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'troubled with doubts'): from French scrupuleux or Latin scrupulosus, from scrupulus (see scruple). Definition of scrupulous in US English: scrupulousadjectiveˈskro͞opyələsˈskrupjələs 1(of a person or process) diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details. the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail Example sentencesExamples - He seems as active in the process now as he ever was, appropriately scrupulous in the crediting and remembering of what was given, by whom and when.
- The scrupulous fabrication of the low-relief wall ensembles in this show approaches the perverse.
- He inherited standards of economy in design and of scrupulous execution from Domenico Veneziano and Fra Angelico, though he lacked the imaginative powers of either.
- Ghost World and The Royal Tenenbaums would not be among my favorites for the year if not for their scrupulous production design.
- Both he and Taylor are scrupulous in conveying how the photographs would have looked to Dodgson's audience.
- In those days Bob was scrupulous about fully crediting Gerry - and appropriately crediting everyone in the office.
- Weinberg's strengths as an art historian owe largely to his scrupulous attention to the visual field.
- Probably the most painstaking part of the job is the scrupulous documentation process.
- This is always an issue for the scrupulous scholar - what to enlarge upon, what to jettison - but this is the only equivocation about this impressive book, written with both passion and clarity.
- He periodically returns to a monochromatic style, punctuated by scrupulous forays into vivid chromatic declarations.
- She is scrupulous about disclosing her sources and acknowledging her debts while insistent that her aesthetic judgments are based on what she has looked at hard and pondered.
- Their compositions were symmetrical and bathed in an even light; only perfect examples of cultivars in full bloom were included, and individual blooms were painted with scrupulous accuracy.
- However, right at the beginning he is scrupulous in distinguishing the two terms.
- Individually and as a group, Cubist images demand the viewer's scrupulous attention.
- The first ‘Station’ gives us a curved cross suspended from a short, rusty chain, the figure in lean, scrupulous profile.
- To be sure, Meyer makes such large-scale historical revisions and theoretical shifts only implicitly and through the lens of scrupulous historical detail.
- You sense only the labor-intensive detailing of a boat modeler, no doubt scrupulous but also antiquarian.
- The effects of such scrupulous husbandry are manifest by the way in which the cultivated and natural landscape merge into one another in a rare reciprocity.
- It has never been so scrupulous in its methods, so inclusive in the questions it asks - and so incurious about what might be called the aesthetic life of a building.
- Brown is scrupulous in presenting what is, and what is not, known about these situations.
Synonyms careful, meticulous, painstaking, thorough, assiduous, sedulous, attentive, diligent, conscientious, ultra-careful, punctilious, searching, close, elaborate, minute, studious, rigorous, particular - 1.1 Very concerned to avoid doing wrong.
she's too scrupulous to have an affair with a married man Example sentencesExamples - Seeking to protect his pregnant wife, gangster Gui decides to give himself up to the authorities, only to find his act of self-sacrifice results in the loss of everything to less scrupulous rivals.
- The title's meanings remain only provisionally understood, but the term's significance was bound up in notions of learning, the righteousness of tradition, and the scrupulous observance of ritual obligation.
- This research provides evidence that developing a corporate culture that stresses honesty and scrupulous behavior is not only the right thing to do, but produces real savings to the cooperative as well.
Synonyms honest, honourable, upright, upstanding, high-minded, righteous, right-minded, moral, ethical, good, virtuous, principled, proper, correct, just, noble, incorruptible, anti-corruption, conscientious, respectable, decent
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘troubled with doubts’): from French scrupuleux or Latin scrupulosus, from scrupulus (see scruple). |