scruple
Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedientHesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm.
» He has no scruples about lying.
Он не стесняется врать.
Meaning
5 sensesHesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm.
Skrupel
A weight of ¹⁄₂₈₈ of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains
A Hebrew unit of time equal to ¹⁄₁₀₈₀ hour.
(broadly, obsolete)A very small quantity; a particle.
(obsolete)A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
Examples
15 sentencesHe has no scruples about lying.
ruОн не стесняется врать. — Biga
I admire your scruples, Tom.
He tried to overcome his scruples.
deEr versuchte, seine Skrupel zu überwinden. — al_ex_an_der
Some people have no scruples whatsoever.
deManche Menschen haben keinerlei Skrupel. — al_ex_an_der
Some people are completely without scruple.
deManche Menschen haben keinerlei Skrupel. — al_ex_an_der
Translations
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Origin
From Old French scrupule, from Latin scrūpulus (“(literally) a small sharp or pointed stonFrom Old French scrupule, from Latin scrūpulus (“(literally) a small sharp or pointed stone; uneasiness of mind, anxiety, doubt, trouble; scruple”) and scrūpulum (“one twenty-fourth of an ounce”), diminutives of scrūpus (“a rough or sharp stone; anxiety, uneasiness”); perhaps akin to Ancient Greek σκύρος (skúros, “the chippings of stone”), from ξυρόν (xurón, “razor”), from ξύω (xúō, “to scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *ksew-. Doublet of escropulo and escrupulo.
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