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scruple

English

  1. 🔊 an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
  2. 🔊 uneasiness about the fitness of an action
  3. 🔊 a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains
  4. 🔊 have doubts about
  5. 🔊 raise scruples
    “He lied and did not even scruple about it”
  6. 🔊 hesitate on moral grounds
    “The man scrupled to perjure himself”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 escrupulizar to scruple

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