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Definition
ethical or moral principles that discourage certain kinds of action
- They were completely fearless of wild horses, shooting affrays and the indignation of their neighbors, but they had a wholesome fear of their red-haired mother's outspoken remarks and the riding crop that she did not scruple to lay across their breeches.1.1 (56% in)
- She was not above selling a poor grade of lumber for the price of good lumber if she thought she would not be detected, and she had no scruples about black-guarding the other lumber dealers.4.38 (10% in)
- His inexperience, his errors, his utter lack of business judgment and his scruples about close dealing were the same as Hugh's.4.41 (93% in)
- Scarlett was in a furious temper and did not scruple to expend it on Hugh, for she had just received an order for a large amount of lumber—a rush order at that.4.42 (48% in)
- But some people, like Ashley, have neither cunning nor strength or, having them, scruple to use them.4.43 (75% in)
- She loved him, scamp, blackguard, without scruple or honor—at least, honor as Ashley saw it.5.62 (85% in)
There are no more uses of "scruples" in Gone with the Wind.
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