Both Uses of
scruples
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- He says this, a censor of morals, a very pelican in his piety, who did not scruple, oblivious of the ties of nature, to attempt illicit intercourse with a female domestic drawn from the lowest strata of society!†
Chpt 14 *
- An old man, widower, unkempt of hair, in bed, with head covered, sighing: an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death of a septuagenarian, suicide by poison.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(scruples) ethical or moral principles that discourage certain kinds of action