scrupulosity
Americannoun
plural
scrupulositiesExample Sentences
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There was no attempt to get to the bottom of what really happened, no rigor, no scrupulosity, no care for the actual event.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 23, 2019
This partiality, difficult to account for on aesthetic grounds, is likely attributable to a certain overlap in sensibility between the authors, an unembarrassed belief in prudence and scrupulosity over unchecked feeling.
From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016
When you look closely at this golden age of regulatory scrupulosity, the real driver is innovation.
From Forbes • Apr. 15, 2014
Once before, when Will's professional conduct had been criticized, he complained with baroque condescension that journalism is "now infested with persons who are little moral thermometers'. . . spreading a silly scrupulosity."
From Time Magazine Archive
He was, his son remembered, morally meticulous, and though Ishmael might strive to emulate this, there was nevertheless this matter of the war— this matter of the arm he’d lost—that made such scrupulosity difficult.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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