Both Uses of
scrupulous
in
Native Speaker
- Jack calls it the Taxi Rule. This means that you can get drunk ... but still keep in mind that you haven't done right if you don't eventually bear him home. ... Tonight I was working unscrupulously.
*unscrupulously = unethically (in a manner that is wrong morally)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unscrupulously means not and reverses the meaning of scrupulously. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- All of it was scrupulously sealed and double-wrapped but it didn't do any good.†
Definition:
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(scrupulous) careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)