scruple
noun
a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
scrupling
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present participleof scruple.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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She now looked at him as if he were an object, scrupling not to meet his eye with her strange, unwavering gaze.
From A Face Illumined by Edward Payson Roe
On this she laid my meal, not scrupling to set aside some of the snug dry townsfolk.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
Richard Baxter, in the seventeenth century, had said of confirmation that, so far from scrupling the true use of it, there was scarce any outward thing in the Church he valued more highly.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
At the same time far be it from me to—hum—to put upon the fine feelings by which my partial friends are actuated, the slight of scrupling to admit that those offerings are—hum—highly acceptable.
From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Even in the last revision of his early compositions we find him altering passages, which at first sight appear impeccable, with the object of enriching their harmony and without scrupling to use hidden octaves.
From Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel
