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  • verb Present participle of scruple.

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Examples

  • By creating the mechanism of "scrupling," individuals, individual congregation, and individual presbyteries can do pretty much whatever they want.

    Blogotional 2008

  • I guess I was just scrupling at the suggestion that “emotional” development or detail should be construed as specifically appealing to the female reader, or to THE female reader, as a monolithic type.

    REVIEW: Night Rising by Chris Green 2007

  • At the same time far be it from me to — hum — to put upon the fine feelings by which my partial friends are actuated, the slight of scrupling to admit that those offerings are — hum — highly acceptable.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • I guess I was just scrupling at the suggestion that “emotional” development or detail should be construed as specifically appealing to the female reader, or to THE female reader, as a monolithic type.

    Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary » REVIEW: Night Rising by Chris Green » Print 2007

  • He sat next to her, no longer presuming to place an arm around her, but — as a physician — scrupling to take one of her hands in both of his.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

  • He sat next to her, no longer presuming to place an arm around her, but — as a physician — scrupling to take one of her hands in both of his.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

  • Of him, too, and of his health, she was careful, never scrupling to say a word in season when he was likely to hurt himself, either among the fences, or among the decanters.

    The Duke's Children 2004

  • When, at length, after much heartburning and conscientious scrupling, he was mastered by a healthier spirit of self-assertion, which made him rebel against the uselessness of the conflict, and doggedly resolve to put an end to it, he was only enabled to stand firm by summoning to his aid all the strengthening egoism, which is latent in every more or less artistic nature.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • Her conscientious scrupling: “But mother may be cross!” had passed unheeded.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • “Young Con always the cleverest, knowing what he wanted and often not scrupling at how he got it.”

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

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