scruple

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++scru·ple1 /ˈskruːpəl/ noun [countable usually plural, uncountable]  GOOD/MORALa belief about what is right and wrong that prevents you from doing bad things 顾忌，顾虑 → qualmscruples about doing something He had no scruples about selling faulty goods to people. 他卖次货给人，心里没有丝毫不安。 a man with no moral scruples 一个道德上无所顾忌的男人without scruple They made thousands of families homeless without scruple. 他们肆无忌惮，令成千上万的家庭流离失所。

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scruple• He had a steely streak but his morals and scruples were beyond reproach.• In the rush not to be left behind, scruples about starvation and labour camps are forgotten.• She refused his advances and confounded a multitude of scholars assembled by him to overcome her scruples.• He overcame his scruples and by 1846 took thirty-five wives, eight of them widows of Joseph Smith.• They are passive, we are told; moral scruples don't come into it.• I respect your scruple, scour; but in this case I believe true delicacy requires you to do as I ask.had ... scruples• He could not say that he had scruples of conscience for not joining in the military training.• Crell in particular had no scruples about playing on his countrymen's cultural nationalism for the development of the fatherland's chemistry.• But when the celebs paraded for Reagan 20 years ago, Republicans had no such scruples.scruple2 verb  not scruple to do something literaryDISHONEST to be willing to do something even though it may be wrong or may upset people 毫无顾忌地做某事 They did not scruple to bomb innocent civilians. 他们毫无顾忌地轰炸无辜平民。→ See Verb table

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scruple• Dumont does not scruple to show the naked corpse, left on the edge of a ploughed field.Origin scruple1 (1400-1500) Old French scrupule, from Latin scrupulus “small sharp stone, cause of mental discomfort”, from scrupus “sharp stone”

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scru‧ple¹ /ˈskruːpəl/ noun [countable usually plural, uncountable]a belief about what is right and wrong that prevents you from doing bad things ⇨ qualm
    scruples about doing something
    He had no scruples about selling faulty goods to people.
    a man with no moral scruples
    without scruple
    They made thousands of families homeless without scruple.

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scruple² verb
not scruple to do something literary to be willing to do something even though it may be wrong or may upset people:
    They did not scruple to bomb innocent civilians.