All 7 Uses of
scrupulous
in
Atlas Shrugged
- It seemed to him as if a few rays from it reached into his present: not rays, more like pinpoint spotlights that gave an occasional moment's glitter to his job, to his lonely apartment, to the quiet, scrupulous progression of his existence.†
Chpt 1.1
- Eddie's eyes were blue, wide and questioning; he had blond hair and a square face, unremarkable except for that look of scrupulous attentiveness and...
Chpt 1.1 *scrupulous = diligent and ethical
- I think he's a destructive, unscrupulous ruffian.†
Chpt 1.1
- They're saying that I am an unscrupulous cheat who has defrauded them.†
Chpt 1.5
- Uncle Julius blamed it on Wesley's cunning and cried that Wesley was an unscrupulous schemer.†
Chpt 2.6
- He remembered the austerely pitiless respect he had felt for his contract of marriage, for all his contracts and all his legal obligations-and he saw what sort of legality his scrupulous observance was expected to serve.†
Chpt 3.5
- …do not pay a higher price for a rusty chunk of scrap than for a piece of shining metal, so you do not value a rotter above a hero-that your moral appraisal is the coin paying men for their virtues or vices, and this payment demands of you as scrupulous an honor as you bring to financial transactions-that to withhold your contempt from men's vices is an act of moral counterfeiting, and to withhold your admiration from their virtues is an act of moral embezzlement-that to place any other…†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(scrupulous) careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)