SCRUPLE in a Sentence

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51 example sentences for SCRUPLE, such as:

1. Don't scruple to answer freely, man.
2. I am sure the scruple does you honour, Mr. Sandeford.
3. Your sister being with you, my love, I have no scruple at all.
4. Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
5. Fearing that her husband had become involved in an affair, she did not scruple to read his diary.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCRUPLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scruple
 v.  hesitate as a result of conscience or principle
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  It were sin to doubt it, maiden," replied Ivanhoe; "and I repose myself on thy skill without further scruple or question, well trusting you will enable me to bear my corslet on the eighth day.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  "Thou art no good knight if thou dost scruple at it," said Waldemar.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  He did not scruple to add that her being at home for a while would be a great advantage to everybody.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Don't scruple to answer freely, man.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  Since the idea had been started in the very quarter which ought to dictate, he had no scruple," he said, "in confessing his judgement to be entirely on that side.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  Your sister being with you, my love, I have no scruple at all.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  I am sure the scruple does you honour, Mr. Sandeford.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
8  Scarlett was in a furious temper and did not scruple to expend it on Hugh, for she had just received an order for a large amount of lumber--a rush order at that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  But some people, like Ashley, have neither cunning nor strength or, having them, scruple to use them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
10  She loved him, scamp, blackguard, without scruple or honor--at least, honor as Ashley saw it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
11  The transaction had justified itself by its results: she saw now how absurd it would have been to let any primitive scruple deprive her of this easy means of appeasing her creditors.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
12  He knew too much about her, and even at the moment when it was essential that he should show himself at his best, he did not scruple to let her see how much he knew.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
13  When he first bought her, she was, as she said, a woman delicately bred; and then he crushed her, without scruple, beneath the foot of his brutality.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
14  Now you had better go; for if you stay longer, you will perhaps irritate me afresh by some mistrustful scruple.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  He was a plain rough man; and he made no scruple to speak his doubts of her surviving this second attack; unless she were more submissive to his directions than she had shown herself before.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence:
1  Fearing that her husband had become involved in an affair, she did not scruple to read his diary.
2  When offered a post on the board of directors, David had to demur: he had scruples about taking on the job because he was unsure he could handle it.
3  Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.