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单词 scruple
释义
scruple
noun[CorU]
uk
/ˈskruː.pəl/us
/ˈskruː.pəl/
afeelingthatpreventsyou from doing something that youthinkismorallywrongor makes youuncertainabout doing it:
顾忌；顾虑
Robin Hoodhadno scruplesaboutrobbingtherichto give to thepoor.罗宾汉对劫富济贫问心无愧。
He is a manwithoutscruple - he has noconscience.他是一个无所顾忌的人——一点良知都没有。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Morality and rules of behaviour
  • antisocial
  • antisocially
  • baseness
  • bioethics
  • by the bookidiom
  • claim
  • ethically
  • ethos
  • honour
  • liberty
  • moral
  • moral compass
  • moralist
  • motto
  • principled
  • propriety
  • savoury
  • social conscience
  • the rights and wrongsidiom
  • voice
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scruple
verb
formal
uk
/ˈskruː.pəl/us
/ˈskruː.pəl/
not scruple to dosomething
to notcarethat something you do ismorallywrongorlikelyto havebadresults:
毫无顾忌地做…
He wouldn't scruple tocheathis ownmotherif there wasmoneyin it for him.只要有利可图，他会毫无顾忌地欺骗自己的母亲。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Treating as unimportant
  • blow
  • blowsomething/someoneoff
  • brushsomeone/somethingaside
  • chopped liver
  • damn
  • denigrate
  • denigration
  • front
  • laugh
  • laughsomethingoff
  • leavesomethingat the dooridiom
  • look down onsomeone
  • minoritize
  • never
  • shrugsomethingoff
  • skate over/aroundsomething
  • sniff atsomething
  • sweepsomethingaside
  • talksomethingdown
  • wave
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(Definition ofscruplefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

scruple| American Dictionary

scruple
noun[C/U]
us
/ˈskru·pəl/
astrongbeliefabout what isrightorwrongthatgovernsyouractions:
[C]He has scruples about going out with hisstudents.
(Definition ofscruplefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofscruple

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The left with its scruples about the world's first socialist country and its fear of providing grist to the right's mill.
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They must have had some scruples about it.
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I have no scruples whatsoever in that connection.
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He is stubborn, ruthless, intelligent and devoid of moral scruples—the most dangerous kind of opponent.
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He was of a shy and retiring disposition, and he had some scruples about using violence to meet violence.
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Obviously that is an exaggeration, because many doctors, even if they did not respect the law, have religious scruples about doing anything of the sort.
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Many of these wrecked cars get into the hands of back-street repairers who have no scruples.
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If a person does that he does not bargain; he does nothing except insist that his scruples shall be respected.
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Her own innate scruples make her loath to occupy this all-providing, all-deciding, monolithic role among responsible, civilised mankind.
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A nation that denies those freedoms to its own people will have few scruples about denying them to others, agreements or no agreements.
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We do not have these scruples for magistrates' courts.
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Indeed, it is very important for someone with the scruples that he has to make that bold statement and demonstrate by example.
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What we have to do, apparently, is to throw over our moral scruples.
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I have tried hard to put out of my mind any trivial and foolish or affected scruples in this matter.
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The media picture themselves as the upholders of rectitude, but many members of the media have neither principles nor scruples.
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