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 1.1scrupulous = careful to behave ethically and/or diligently
- 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 1.1unscrupulous = 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.
- 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 3.5scrupulous = careful to behave ethically and/or diligently
- Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly, that just as you 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 financi†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)