scruplenoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈskruː.pəl/us/ˈskruː.pəl/a feeling that prevents you from doing something that you think is morally wrong or makes you uncertain about doing it:
Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
He is a man without scruple - he has no conscience.
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Morality and rules of behaviour
- antisocial
- bioethics
- book
- claim
- conscience
- decency
- double standard
- morality
- moralize
- morally
- norm
- object lesson
- social contract
- spirit
- the rights and wrongs idiom
- the ways of the world idiom
- two wrongs don't make a right idiom
- value
- voice
- wrong
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scrupleverb
uk/ˈskruː.pəl/us/ˈskruː.pəl/formalnot scruple to do sth
to not care that something you do is morally wrong or likely to have bad results:
He wouldn't scruple to cheat his own mother if there was money in it for him.
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Treating as unimportant
- blow
- blow sth/sb off
- brush sb/sth aside
- denigrate
- deprecate
- derogate
- derogate from sth
- laugh
- never
- play fast and loose with sth/sb idiom
- pour
- pour scorn on sb/sth idiom
- scorn
- scornful
- shrug
- talk
- talk sth down
- wave
- write
- write sb/sth off
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