Sample Sentences for
scrupulous
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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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    ...we have not been too scrupulous.  (source)
    scrupulous = ethical; or diligent
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    By those best acquainted with his habits, the paleness of the young minister's cheek was accounted for by his too earnest devotion to study, his scrupulous fulfillment of parochial duty,  (source)
    scrupulous = diligence (thorough attention to detail)
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    Hers came from having taught school all her life and being scrupulous with her savings.  (source)
    scrupulous = careful
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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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    a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman who lived up to her dishonorable reputation.  (source)
    unscrupulous = unethical
    standard 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 = unethically
    standard 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)
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    The very scrupulousness with which he told her...  (source)
    scrupulousness = care and attention to detail
    standard 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 behavior
    standard 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)
    standard 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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    He would be scrupulous about paying support;  (source)
    scrupulous = careful to behave ethically and/or diligently
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