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# scruple

«scruple» in Mova's school dictionary: **a feeling that stops you doing something because you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (scruples); verb (scruple, scruples, scrupled, scrupling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A scruple is a feeling that stops you doing something because you think it may be wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scruple/#m1)

2) To scruple is to hesitate to do something because you think it may be wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scruple/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, «did not scruple to» means did not hesitate to do something, even if it was wrong; in talk, «no scruples» means no worry about right and wrong

### examples

- He had no scruples about lying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scruple/#x1)
- The man did not scruple to tell a long story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scruple/#x2)
- She did not scruple to take the last cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scruple/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scruple» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scruple/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.