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scruplesnoun1pl. of scruple a very small amountwent about her business without even a scruple of suspicion aces, bits, crumbs, dabs, drams, driblets, glimmers, hints, licks, little, mites, nips, ounces, particles, peanuts, rays, scintillas, shades, shadows, shreds, skoshes, smacks, smells, smidgens(also smidgeons or smidgins or smidges), snaps, soupçons, sparks, spatters, specks, splashes, spots, sprinklings, strains, streaks, suspicions, touches, traces hoots, iotas, jots, minima(or minimums), minims, modicums, semblances, syllables, tittles, vestiges, whitsatoms, dots, flecks, flyspecks, grains, granules, molecules, morsels, motes, nubbins, patches, scrapsdashes, drops, pinchesparts, portions, sectionsbites, nibbles, tasteshandfuls(also handsful), scatterings, smatterings, smattersdoses, shotschips, flakes, fragments, shards, shivers, slivers, smithereens, splintersshreds, tattersclippings, parings, shavings drops in the bucket abundances, barrels, boatloads, buckets, bundles, bushels, deals, fistfuls, gobs, heaps, lashings(also lashins, chiefly British), loads, lots, masses, messes, mountains, much, oodles, passels, pecks, piles, plenties, potfuls, profusions, quantities, rafts, reams, scads, stacks, wads, wealthsvolumesbonanzas, embarrassments, excesses, overabundances, overages, overflows, overkills, overmuch, oversupplies, superabundances, superfluities, surfeits, surpluseschunks, hunks, lumps, slabs a very small pieceleft just a scruple of asparagus on the plate atoms, bits, crumbs, dribbles, flecks, flyspecks, grains, granules, molecules, morsels, motes, nubbins, nuggets, particles, patches, scraps, snippets, snips, specks, tittles aces, dabs, dashes, driblets, drops, fractions, haets(chiefly Scottish), halfpence(or halfpennies), ha'pennies, iotas, jots, kennings(chiefly Scottish), licks, minims, mites, modicums, nutshells, ounces, pinches, shreds, smatters, smidgens(also smidgeons or smidgins or smidges), spots, strains, streaks, suspicions, tastes, touches, traces, whispers, whitsbites, mouthfuls, nibbles, tidbits(also titbits)fragments, parts, portions, sectionschips, flakes, shards, shivers, slivers, splintersclippings, parings, shavingssmithereens chunks, gobs, hunks, lumps, slabsabundances, barrels, buckets, bushels, deals, heaps, loads, masses, mountains, pecks, piles, pots, profusions, quantities, rafts, scads, stacks, volumes, wads, wealths scruplesnoun2pl. of scruplean uneasy feeling about the rightness of what one is doing or going to dothe survey showed that many students had few scruples about cheating on papers or exams compunctions, misgivings, qualms consciencesdistrusts, doubts, dubieties, incertitudes, misdoubts, mistrusts, reservations, skepticisms, suspicions, uncertaintiesreluctancesdemurs, fusses, objections, protests, questions, remonstrancesaversions, disinclinations, indispositions, reluctancesguilts, regrets, remorses, self-reproaches, shamescontritions, penitences, repentances aplombs, assurances, certainties, certitudes, confidences, convictions, self-confidences scruplesverbpresent tense third-person singular of scrupleto show uncertainty about the right course of actiona tabloid journalist who has never scrupled to reveal the most intimate details about the lives of celebrities balances, dithers, falters, halts, hangs back, hesitates, shilly-shallies, staggers, teeters, vacillates, wavers, wobbles(also wabbles) haws, hemsdallies, dawdles, delays, lingers, pauses, procrastinates, waitsbacks down, chickens (out)considers, debates, deliberates, ponders, weighsoscillates, swaysequivocates, hedges, pussyfoots, waffles dives (in), plunges (in) decidesbudges, stirsadvances, continues |