4 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)
- her fortune is already more than sufficient to attract those unscrupulous adventurers...Chapter 33 (89% in)
unscrupulous = unethical
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
- He was extremely polite to Lavinia, scrupulously, formally polite; and she had never seen him in anger but once in her life, when he lost his temper in a theological discussion with her late husband.Chapter 2 (30% in)
- It was quite on her conscience to deliver this message, and had the mission been ten times more painful she would have as scrupulously performed it.Chapter 20 (65% in)
- You doubtless think him too scrupulous.Chapter 30 (97% in)
There are no more uses of "scrupulous" in Washington Square.
Typical Usage
(best examples)