Scruples Synonyms and Antonyms

Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. conscience
  2. moral sense
  3. sense of right and wrong
Uneasiness about the fitness of an action
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. qualms
  2. misgivings
  3. reservations
  4. compunctions
Misgiving, doubt
(Noun)
Antonyms:
  1. negligences
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. overconscientiousness
  2. scrupulousness

Scruples Sentence Examples

  • The same scruples endured among the medieval Cathars.

  • One day, almost overcome with scruples, he was tempted to end his miseries by suicide.

  • They have conscientious scruples to overcome.

  • Though he had some scruples about doing business at that season, he received his visitors with much civility.

  • Even there he resisted, not so much, it would seem, from any scruples of his own, for he was not a high-minded man, as because he knew that he dared not return to Italy if he gave way.

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