All 3 Uses of
scrupulous
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- was scrupulously neat and clean
Chpt 13 *scrupulously = done with extreme care
- The young sparks, it is true, were as full of extravagancies as overgrown children: the words of their tumultuary discussions were difficultly understood and not often nice: their testiness and outrageous mots were such that his intellects resiled from: nor were they scrupulously sensible of the proprieties though their fund of strong animal spirits spoke in their behalf.†
Chpt 14
- The reason he mentioned the fact was that a lot of those policemen, whom he cordially disliked, were admittedly unscrupulous in the service of the Crown and, as Mr Bloom put it, recalling a case or two in the A division in Clanbrassil street, prepared to swear a hole through a ten gallon pot.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(scrupulous) careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)