All 6 Uses of
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Mrs. Warren's Profession
- If he made his play false to life by inventing fictitious disadvantages for her, he would be acting as unscrupulously as any tract writer.†
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- Further, it is not true that the Censorship, though it certainly suppresses Ibsen and Tolstoy, and would suppress Shakespear but for the absurd rule that a play once licensed is always licensed (so that Wycherly is permitted and Shelley prohibited), also suppresses unscrupulous playwrights.†
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- Place the theatres on the same footing, and we shall promptly have a similar revolution: a whole class of frankly blackguardly plays, in which unscrupulous low comedians attract crowds to gaze at bevies of girls who have nothing to exhibit but their prettiness, will vanish like the obscene songs which were supposed to enliven the squalid dulness, incredible to the younger generation, of the music-halls fifteen years ago.†
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- The degrees in infamy are as numerous and as scrupulously observed as the degrees in the peerage: the moralist's notion that there are depths at which the moral atmosphere ceases is as delusive as the rich man's notion that there are no social jealousies or snobberies among the very poor.†
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- These critics must know, too, from history if not from experience, that women as unscrupulous as Mrs Warren have distinguished themselves as administrators and rulers, both commercially and politically.†
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- If poverty does not matter as long as it is contented, then crime does not matter as long as it is unscrupulous.†
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Definition:
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(scrupulous) careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)