All 5 Uses of
scrupulous
in
Arrowsmith
- The Aseptic School, on the other hand, maintains that what the patient wants is that appearance of scrupulous hygiene which can be produced only by furnishing the outer waiting-room as well as the inner offices in white-painted chairs and tables, with merely a Japanese print against a gray wall.†
Chpt 8scrupulous = careful to behave ethically and/or diligently
- I owe my city the most scrupulous performance of duty in safeguarding it against disease
Chpt 22 *scrupulous = careful and diligent
- Ross McGurk was at the time a man of fifty-four, second generation of California railroad men; a graduate of Yale; big, suave, dignified, cheerful, unscrupulous.†
Chpt 27unscrupulous = 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.
- There may have been in the shadowy heart of Max Gottlieb a diabolic insensibility to divine pity, to suffering humankind; there may have been mere resentment of the doctors who considered his science of value only as it was handy to advertising their business of healing; there may have been the obscure and passionate and unscrupulous demand of genius for privacy.†
Chpt 32
- If I can use you, I'll be unscrupulous enough!†
Chpt 34
Definition:
careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)