A spy can't have any scruples about killing someone to prevent detection.
The man had such a high level of scruples, he was incapable of telling a lie.
I had scruples about sneaking out.
Jennings had scruples about what was going down, unlike the rest of the associates,who dived enthusiastically into the ugly task before them
I think I can show you that your scruples are quite ill founded - (the dangerous game by Richard Connell)
As a person of few scruples he was more than happy to take the credit for another person's work.
(The noun for moral hesitation is almost always used as the plural "scruples". Even rarer in US use is the verb to scruple, to hesitate.)"The old manager never fired a pregnant woman, but his successor had no such scruples."
I had to scruple when my teacher asked me wheather I was chewing gum in class or not.another answerThe word scruples is a synonym for ethics..sort of. John had no scruples about taking Henry's last piece of paper.Notice that the word has "no" in front of it. If you are going to use the word in a positive way, the word "scrupulous" would be used.Mary was scrupulous about cleaning her room.In this case, it means very particular, and has a different "slant" on things.
1 dram = 1.3671875 scruples
25.8lbs apothecary equals 7430.4 scruples.
Maigret Has Scruples was created on 1958-06-25.
"Scruples" is a noun. It refers to a feeling of hesitation or doubt about the morality or integrity of an action.