scrupulousin a sentence
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You can count on her. She is scrupulous in her work.scrupulous = careful and thorough
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She runs an unscrupulous business.unscrupulous = dishoneststandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unscrupulous means not and reverses the meaning of scrupulous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Lenders trust her as a scrupulous property inspector.scrupulous = honest and careful
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Today I'll have to be scrupulously careful. (source)scrupulously = diligently (with careful attention to detail)
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From then on he scrupulously avoided contacting either his parents or Carine, (source)scrupulously = diligently (with great care)
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Like the Matching of Spouses and the Naming and Placement of newchildren, the Assignments were scrupulously thought through by the Committee of Elders. (source)scrupulously = with great care and attention to detail
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A scrupulous blackout was imposed on the city at night. (source)scrupulous = carefully done (with diligent attention to detail)
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The boy sitting next to Ender was scrupulously careful not to touch him. (source)scrupulously = diligently (extremely careful)
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a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman who lived up to her dishonorable reputation. (source)unscrupulous = unethicalstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unscrupulous means not and reverses the meaning of scrupulous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Sometimes it looks as if people act quite unscrupulously, but I believe they also have a kind of conscience somewhere, deep down. (source)unscrupulously = unethicallystandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unscrupulously means not and reverses the meaning of scrupulously. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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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.† (source)scrupulosity = the state of behaving ethically and/or diligently
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The very scrupulousness with which he told her... (source)scrupulousness = care and attention to detailstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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...did not even know that he had found the place where money was to be had quick if you were courageous and shrewd (he did not mean shrewdness, Grandfather said. What he meant was unscrupulousness only he didn't know that word...) (source)unscrupulousness = unethical behaviorstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unscrupulousness means not and reverses the meaning of scrupulousness. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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It was not, like some more intellectual priests, that he was overscrupulous: he had been simply filled with an overwhelming sense of God.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overscrupulous means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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He turned on her cheek the heat of love, its horror, its cruelty, its unscrupulosity.† (source)unscrupulosity = the state of not behaving ethically and/or diligentlystandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unscrupulosity means not and reverses the meaning of scrupulosity. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Clarkson and the abolitionists were scrupulous about not exaggerating. (source)scrupulous = very careful
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