All 3 Uses of
scrupulous
in
Moby Dick
- For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on the marble panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of chain-armor like Saladin's, and a helmeted head like St. George's; ever since then has something of the same sort of license prevailed, not only in most popular pictures of the whale, but in many scientific presentations of him.†
Chpt 55-57
- But others are by no means so scrupulous.
Chpt 88-90 *scrupulous = ethical
- But a day or two after, you look about you, and prick your ears in this self-same ship; and were it not for the tell-tale boats and try-works, you would all but swear you trod some silent merchant vessel, with a most scrupulously neat commander.†
Chpt 97-99
Definition:
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(scrupulous) careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)