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careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)
- scrupulous in the performance of his dutiesBook 11 — Ivan (26% in)
scrupulous = diligent and careful
- Though Fyodor Pavlovitch was a drunkard and a vicious debauchee he never neglected investing his capital, and managed his business affairs very successfully, though, no doubt, not over-scrupulously.Book 1 — The History Of A Family (22% in)
- He brushed his clothes most scrupulously twice a day invariably, and was very fond of cleaning his smart calf boots with a special English polish, so that they shone like mirrors.Book 3 — The Sensualists (50% in)
- Then he was attracted by a fine and intelligent girl and soon after married her, hoping that marriage would dispel his lonely depression, and that by entering on a new life and scrupulously doing his duty to his wife and children, he would escape from old memories altogether.Book 6 — The Russian Monk (58% in)
- I have never doubted his disinterestedness and his honesty .... his scrupulous honesty .... in money matters.Book 12 — A Judicial Error (24% in)
There are no more uses of "scrupulous" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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