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scrupulously

[skroo-pyuh-luhs]

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adjective

having scruples; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled.

punctiliously or minutely careful, precise, or exact: a scrupulous performance.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin scrūpulōsus. See scruple, -ous

Related forms

scru·pu·los·i·ty

[skroo-pyuh-los-i-tee] , scru·pu·lous·ness, noun

scru·pu·lous·ly, adverb

hy·per·scru·pu·los·i·ty, noun

hy·per·scru·pu·lous, adjective

hy·per·scru·pu·lous·ly, adverb

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hy·per·scru·pu·lous·ness, noun

un·der·scru·pu·lous, adjective

un·der·scru·pu·lous·ly, adverb

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Synonyms
1. conscientious, cautious, careful, circumspect. 2. exacting, rigorous. Scrupulous, punctilious imply abiding exactly by rules. Scrupulous implies conscientious carefulness in attending to details: scrupulous attention to details. Punctilious suggests strictness, preciseness, and rigidity, especially in observance of social conventions.

Antonyms
2. careless.

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Example Sentences

Scrupulously religious, he was piously at worship services daily.

The horrendous results of what you did make it likely you will be scrupulously honest this time round.

They must keep strictly to the law, observe accounting rules scrupulously and be wholly transparent.

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Scrupulously religious, he was piously at worship services daily.

The horrendous results of what you did make it likely you will be scrupulously honest this time round.

They must keep strictly to the law, observe accounting rules scrupulously and be wholly transparent.

Each item had to be scrupulously weighed because each cost its weight in fuel.

For that reason, hypermilers scrupulously obey the speed limit.

Parker has scrupulously edited the text from corrections made by the former during nearly forty years, and.

But, not wanting to appear judgmental, they usually scrupulously avoid applying moral categories to students.

They are scrupulously polite articles, but they cede to demagoguery even as they avoid it in their own writing.

Oswald scrupulously credits the creators of all the material used in his plunderphonic releases.

Some of us try scrupulously not to notice the difficulties presented to us by.

Studies on lesbian parenting scrupulously shy away from answering that question.

Sears provides a detailed, scrupulously fair account of the general's entire career.

But intonation was scrupulously precise even above the staff.

Haitian electoral officials need to scrupulously recheck vote totals under the close watch of outside observers.

Goodman, previously known for scrupulously keeping himself removed from the show's stormy episodes, has walked off the show.

He's her dream boyfriend, with a drug problem that was cured long ago and flowing blond hair that is scrupulously clean.

O'Connor for a scrupulously prepared and thoroughly professional.

The unsympathetic characters are the scrupulously self-righteous.

He remains scrupulously honest and, for reasons he wouldn't understand, becomes increasingly neat and tidy about his person.

The hero is boyish and honorable, the villains are out-and-out scoundrels and the morals are on a scrupulously high plane.

Still, the scrupulously honest electoral process, a.

Sandweiss's scrupulously researched work about this.

To complete the aura of legality, these bars scrupulously provide their victims with receipts for the total cost.

Don't go rushing to your rock encyclopedias for confirmation that any of this is scrupulously factual.

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World English Dictionary

scrupulous (ˈskruːpjʊləs)

—*adj*
1.	characterized by careful observation of what is morally right
2.	very careful or precise

[C15: from Latin scrūpulōsus punctilious]

'scrupulously

—*adv*

'scrupulousness

—n

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Word Origin & History

scrupulous

late 15c., from Fr. scrupuleux (16c.) or directly from L. scrupulosus, from scrupulus (see scruple). Related: Scrupulously.

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"The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of the snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,—these are in the system, and our habits like theirs. You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity, expensive races,—race living at the expense of race."

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