Definitions for scruple

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scruple scru·ple

Spelling: [skroo-puh l]

IPA: /ˈskru pəl/

Scruple is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in scruple (celprsu).

Definitions for scruple

noun

1. a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
2. a very small portion or amount.
3. a unit of weight equal to 20 grains (1.295 grams) or 1/3 of a dram, apothecaries' weight.
4. an ancient Roman unit of weight equivalent to 1/24 of an ounce or 1/288 of an as or pound. Compare as2 (def 2).

verb (used with object)

1. to have scruples about; hesitate at.

verb (used without object)

1. to have scruples.

Origin of scruple

1350-1400; (French scrupule) Latin scrūpulus unit of weight, worry, precaution equivalent to scrūp(us) rough pebble + -ulus -ule; replacing earlier scriple, Middle Eng

Examples for scruple

I should make no scruple of frightening him within an inch of his life, for his good.

And were I in your place, Anthony, faith I'd not scruple to do it.

Dick had no scruple in clasping that extended hand very warmly in his own.

He had given her indeed, she made no scruple of showing, plenty to consider.

You need have no scruple to take charge of it; it relates not to myself.

"It is a scruple which up till now has been too strong for me," Wrayson remarked quietly.

For this reason we have had no scruple in dismissing it with a short sketch.

As this was an order, the mate did not scruple about obeying it.

But it does not scruple to mark its disapproval by passively hindering him at every turn.

Does it mean that when you are a representative you will not scruple to skewer M. le Marquis?