All 3 Uses of
scrupulous
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- She read all she could find regarding staging, she bought paint and light wood; she borrowed furniture and drapes unscrupulously; she made Kennicott turn carpenter.†
Chpt 18unscrupulously = 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.
- Think how much better you can criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
Chpt 31 *scrupulously = carefully ethical and/or diligent
- She also, with an air of being only too scrupulously exact, granted that sometimes he did not come home till morning.†
Chpt 32scrupulously = ethically; or carefully diligent
Definition:
careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)