Crossword-Solution: SCRUPLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scruple | n. | A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. |
| Scruple | n. | Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. |
| Scruple | n. | Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience. |
| Scruple | v. i. | To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience. |
| Scruple | v. t. | To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question. |
| Scruple | v. t. | To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple. |
We have 38 clues for the answer “SCRUPLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Small moral misgiving | 1 answer |
| 20 grains | 1 answer |
| Bit of moral fiber | 1 answer |
| Conscientious morality. | 1 answer |
| Conscientious reluctance. | 1 answer |
| Ethical consideration | 1 answer |
| Hesitant feeling in matters of conscience. | 1 answer |
| Inhibiting moral principle | 1 answer |
| Inhibiting standard | 1 answer |
| Moral compunction | 1 answer |
| Moral consideration | 1 answer |
| Moral doubt | 1 answer |
| Moral reservation | 1 answer |
| Moral restraint | 1 answer |
| One might make you stop and think | 1 answer |
| Principle that hinders action | 1 answer |
| Twinge of conscience | 3 answers |
| Feeling of doubt | 3 answers |
| Moral principle | 5 answers |
| weighment | 7 answers |
| APOTHECARY MEASURE | 13 answers |
| Reservation | 17 answers |
| disbelief | 31 answers |
| Queasiness | 35 answers |
| CONSCIENCE ___ | 37 answers |
| Twinge | 39 answers |
| reluctance | 41 answers |
| Qualm | 45 answers |
| Hesitate | 48 answers |
| misgiving | 55 answers |
| distrust | 55 answers |
| seizure | 58 answers |
| Scrape | 59 answers |
| Sorrow | 62 answers |
| Sadness | 62 answers |
| Doubt | 74 answers |
| Dilemma | 89 answers |
| Position | 110 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SCRUPLE (5)
They transgressed without fear or scruple, the rules of behaviour that were binding on all others: smoking tobacco under the beadle’s very nose, although each whiff would have cost a townsman a shilling; and quaffing at their pleasure, draughts of wine or aqua-vitæ from pocket flasks, which they freely tendered to the gaping crowd around them.
Nor could I have proceeded on such opinions without scruple, had I supposed that I should thereby forfeit any advantage for attaining still more accurate, should such exist.
Prince John, in the meanwhile, occupied his castle, and disposed of his domains without scruple; and seeking at present to dazzle men’s eyes by his hospitality and magnificence, had given orders for great preparations, in order to render the banquet as splendid as possible.
Suppose the wrong sister had died: would the right one have had any scruple in marrying Tom, after they had both 'waited a proper time,' as the phrase is?" "Bromfield, you're shocking!" "Not more shocking than reality.
Bruff aside indignantly with my own hand, and, in solemn and suitable language, I stated the view with which sound doctrine does not scruple to regard the awful calamity of dying unprepared.
Quotes with SCRUPLE (3)
If it comes to that," retorted Frederica, with spirit, "I am continually shocked by the things you don't scruple to say to me, cousin! You are quite abominable!" He sighed. "Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights.
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
We all colour devotion according to our own likings and dispositions. One man sets great value on fasting, and believes himself to be leading a very devout life, so long as he fasts rigorously, although the while his heart is full of bitterness; — and while he will not moisten his lips with wine, perhaps not even with water, in his great abstinence, he does not scruple to steep them in his neighbour’s blood, through slander and detraction.
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1944–2018).