How to Use scruple in a Sentence

scruple

noun
  • This film for me is about morals and scruples and what people will do or won’t do for money.
    — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Mitevska clearly has no such scruples.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
  • And like any good femme fatale, Maddy is given savvy at the expense of moral scruple.
    — The Editors, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
  • And like any good femme fatale, Maddy is given savvy at the expense of moral scruples.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Sometimes, a billionaire has very questionable scruples as to the best ways to go about things.
    — Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Still, there are some smart, well-meaning voices of caution who warn Democrats against forgetting their scruples.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
  • But the squirrelly, middle-aged guy at the weird surplus store in northern Florida had no such scruples.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Luckily Florida has no such scruples.
    — Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
  • These firms now pay their rainmakers like Wall Street stars and have dropped their courtly scruples for relentless commercialism.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The people of every commune knew and feared those like him — stern figures in black whose ideological devotion appeared to outweigh any moral scruples.
    — Matthew Campbell, Bloomberg, 22 May 2026
  • For Jay Gatsby, a man of immense wealth and few scruples, almost nothing is beyond his voracious appetite for excess.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Randy Orton essentially played his cold robot doppelgänger, a fellow handsome main-eventer who lacked Cena’s scruples.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 18 July 2024
  • But we’re invited to see him as, despite these foibles, amusing and retaining, and his cynicism about everything and his lack of moral scruple is—actually, we’re invited to see this as a kind of higher wisdom.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Mainstream Republicans and right-leaning unaffiliated voters will gravitate to candidates with experience and scruples.
    — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 31 Dec. 2025
  • At this point in its history, the theory goes, the United States requires a willful and largely unaccountable power to impose changes that leaders with more delicate sensibilities and procedural scruples cannot ever accomplish.
    — Russell Muirhead, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Colonial authorities regularly questioned their character, scruples, and business practices; Grietje and Anthony returned the favor.
    — Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
  • Incensed at being outsmarted, the CEO of Weyland-Yutani (Sandra Yi Sencindive) allows one of her employees, a cyborg with very few scruples named Morrow (Babou Ceesay), to use any means necessary to reacquire the biological specimens.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

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