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scrupulous
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having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; "less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance"
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Pyrrhonic
,
accurate
,
active
,
agnostic
,
analyze
,
attentive
,
bashful
,
boggling
,
canvass
,
careful
,
case
,
cautious
,
censorious
,
check over
,
check up
,
choicy
,
choosy
,
close
,
comb
,
compliant
,
con
,
conforming
,
conscientious
,
conscionable
,
consider
,
constant
,
contemplate
,
correct
,
critical
,
deferential
,
delicate
,
demanding
,
demurring
,
detailed
,
devoted
,
devout
,
diffident
,
dig into
,
discriminating
,
discriminative
,
dissect
,
distrustful
,
doubtful
,
doubting
,
dubious
,
duteous
,
dutiful
,
ethical
,
exact
,
exacting
,
examine
,
exigent
,
exquisite
,
eye
,
eyeball
,
fair-minded
,
faithful
,
faltering
,
fastidious
,
fine
,
finical
,
finicking
,
finicky
,
from Missouri
,
fussy
,
heedful
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
high-minded
,
honest
,
honorable
,
in doubt
,
inspect
,
just
,
leery
,
look over
,
loyal
,
methodical
,
meticulous
,
mindful
,
minute
,
mistrustful
,
mistrusting
,
modest
,
moral
,
narrow
,
neat
,
nice
,
obedient
,
observant
,
orderly
,
overconscientious
,
overlook
,
overscrupulous
,
painstaking
,
particular
,
penetrate
,
perfectionistic
,
perlustrate
,
peruse
,
picky
,
pierce
,
pore over
,
practicing
,
precious
,
precise
,
precisian
,
precisianistic
,
precisionist
,
precisionistic
,
priggish
,
principled
,
probe
,
prudish
,
punctilious
,
punctual
,
puristic
,
puritanic
,
qualmish
,
questioning
,
refined
,
regardful
,
religious
,
respectful
,
right
,
righteous
,
rigid
,
rigorous
,
scan
,
scrutinize
,
scrutinizing
,
selective
,
sensitive
,
severe
,
shrinking
,
shy
,
skeptical
,
squeamish
,
stickling
,
strict
,
study
,
subtle
,
survey
,
suspecting
,
suspicious
,
tender-conscienced
,
true
,
uncertain
,
untrusting
,
upstanding
,
vet
,
view
,
wary
,
watch
,
weigh
suspect
collapse
someone who is under suspicion
imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"
hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; "The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks"
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a bit thick
,
a bit thin
,
absurd
,
account as
,
accused
,
arguable
,
assume
,
at issue
,
awake a doubt
,
be afraid
,
be diffident
,
be doubtful
,
be dubious
,
be possessive
,
be skeptical
,
be uncertain
,
believe
,
beyond belief
,
call in question
,
challenge
,
conceive
,
conclude
,
confutable
,
conjectural
,
consider
,
contest
,
contestable
,
contested
,
controversial
,
controvertible
,
correspondent
,
daresay
,
debatable
,
deduce
,
deem
,
defendant
,
deniable
,
disbelieve
,
disbelieved
,
discredited
,
disputable
,
dispute
,
disputed
,
distrust
,
divine
,
doubt
,
doubtable
,
doubted
,
doubtful
,
dream
,
dubious
,
dubitable
,
esteem
,
estimate
,
expect
,
exploded
,
fancy
,
feel
,
gather
,
grant
,
greet with skepticism
,
guess
,
half believe
,
harbor suspicions
,
hard of belief
,
hard to believe
,
have a feeling
,
have a hunch
,
have an idea
,
have an impression
,
have an inkling
,
have reservations
,
have the idea
,
hold
,
hold as
,
iffy
,
imagine
,
implausible
,
in dispute
,
in doubt
,
in dubio
,
in question
,
inconceivable
,
incredible
,
infer
,
judge
,
let
,
let be
,
libelee
,
look upon as
,
maintain
,
misdoubt
,
misgive
,
mistakable
,
mistrust
,
mistrusted
,
moot
,
not deserving belief
,
open
,
open to doubt
,
open to question
,
open to suspicion
,
opine
,
passing belief
,
prefigure
,
preposterous
,
presume
,
presuppose
,
presurmise
,
prisoner
,
problematic
,
provisionally accept
,
query
,
question
,
questionable
,
questioned
,
raise a question
,
reckon
,
refutable
,
regard
,
repute
,
respondent
,
ridiculous
,
say
,
scruple
,
sense
,
set down as
,
shadowy
,
shady
,
shaky
,
smell a rat
,
speculative
,
staggering belief
,
suppose
,
suppositional
,
surmise
,
suspected
,
suspicion
,
suspicious
,
take
,
take for
,
take for granted
,
take it
,
take to be
,
tall
,
theorize
,
thick
,
thin
,
think
,
throw doubt upon
,
treat with reserve
,
trow
,
unbelievable
,
uncertain
,
unclear
,
unconvincing
,
under a cloud
,
under suspicion
,
understand
,
unearthly
,
ungodly
,
unimaginable
,
unthinkable
,
unworthy of belief
,
view as
,
ween
fearful
collapse
experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"
timid by nature or revealing timidity; "timorous little mouse"; "in a timorous tone"; "cast fearful glances at the large dog"
extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"
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aflutter
,
afraid
,
aghast
,
agitated
,
alarmed
,
alarming
,
all nerves
,
all-overish
,
anxious
,
anxioused up
,
appalling
,
apprehensive
,
atrocious
,
awful
,
awing
,
baleful
,
bashful
,
bothered
,
chicken
,
chickenhearted
,
chilling
,
concerned
,
coward
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cowardly
,
cowed
,
daunted
,
daunting
,
deadly
,
deterrent
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deterring
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diffident
,
dire
,
direful
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discomposed
,
disconcerting
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discouraging
,
disgusting
,
disheartening
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dismayed
,
dismaying
,
disquieted
,
disquieting
,
disturbed
,
dreadful
,
edgy
,
excitable
,
fainthearted
,
fear-inspiring
,
fearing
,
fearsome
,
foreboding
,
formidable
,
frightened
,
frightening
,
frightful
,
funking
,
funky
,
ghastly
,
goosy
,
grim
,
grisly
,
gruesome
,
heinous
,
henhearted
,
hesitant
,
hideous
,
high-strung
,
horrendous
,
horrible
,
horrific
,
horrifying
,
howling
,
in a pucker
,
in a stew
,
in fear
,
intimidated
,
irritable
,
jittery
,
jumpy
,
lily-livered
,
loathsome
,
lurid
,
macabre
,
malign
,
milk-livered
,
milksoppish
,
milksoppy
,
misgiving
,
monstrous
,
mousy
,
nauseating
,
nauseous
,
nerves on edge
,
nervous
,
nervy
,
on edge
,
on tenterhooks
,
overanxious
,
overapprehensive
,
overawing
,
overstrung
,
overtimid
,
overtimorous
,
overwhelming
,
panic-prone
,
panic-stricken
,
panicky
,
perturbed
,
pigeonhearted
,
pusillanimous
,
rabbity
,
redoubtable
,
repugnant
,
repulsive
,
revolting
,
rousing
,
scared
,
scaring
,
scary
,
shaky
,
shivery
,
shocking
,
shrinking
,
shy
,
sinister
,
sissified
,
sissy
,
skittery
,
skittish
,
soft
,
solicitous
,
startling
,
startlish
,
strained
,
sublime
,
suspenseful
,
tense
,
terrible
,
terrific
,
terrified
,
terrifying
,
terror-stricken
,
thumping
,
timid
,
timorous
,
trembling
,
tremendous
,
tremulous
,
trepidant
,
trigger-happy
,
troubled
,
uneasy
,
unmanly
,
unmanned
,
unspeakable
,
unwilling
,
weak
,
weak-kneed
,
weakhearted
,
whacking
,
white-livered
,
yellow
,
zealous
mousy
collapse
quiet and timid and ineffectual
of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse; "a mousy brownish-grey color"; "mousy hair"; "mouse-colored hair"
infested with mice
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Quaker-colored
,
acier
,
afraid
,
ashen
,
ashy
,
bashful
,
brown
,
brownish
,
canescent
,
chicken
,
chickenhearted
,
cinereous
,
cinerous
,
colorless
,
confused
,
conscious
,
coward
,
cowardly
,
cowed
,
cowering
,
coy
,
dapple
,
dapple-gray
,
dappled
,
dappled-gray
,
daunted
,
demure
,
diffident
,
dingy
,
dismal
,
dismayed
,
dove-colored
,
dove-gray
,
drab
,
dreary
,
dull
,
dun
,
dusty
,
echoless
,
fainthearted
,
fearful
,
fearing
,
fearsome
,
flat
,
funking
,
funky
,
glaucescent
,
glaucous
,
goosy
,
gray
,
gray-black
,
gray-brown
,
gray-colored
,
gray-drab
,
gray-green
,
gray-spotted
,
gray-toned
,
gray-white
,
grayed
,
grayish
,
grey
,
griseous
,
grizzle
,
grizzled
,
grizzly
,
henhearted
,
hush as death
,
hushed
,
in fear
,
inarticulate
,
inaudible
,
intimidated
,
iron-gray
,
jumpy
,
lead-gray
,
leaden
,
lily-livered
,
livid
,
milk-livered
,
milksoppish
,
milksoppy
,
mouse-colored
,
mouse-gray
,
mouselike
,
mousey
,
nervous
,
noiseless
,
overtimid
,
overtimorous
,
panic-prone
,
panicky
,
pearl
,
pearl-gray
,
pearly
,
pigeonhearted
,
plain
,
quiescent
,
quiet
,
rabbity
,
ratty
,
rodent
,
rodential
,
sad
,
scary
,
self-conscious
,
self-effacing
,
shaky
,
shamefaced
,
shamefast
,
shivery
,
shrinking
,
shy
,
silent
,
silver
,
silver-gray
,
silvered
,
silvery
,
sissified
,
sissy
,
skittery
,
skittish
,
slate-colored
,
slaty
,
smoke-gray
,
smoky
,
sober
,
soft
,
somber
,
soundless
,
stammering
,
startlish
,
steel-gray
,
steely
,
still
,
still as death
,
stilly
,
stone-colored
,
subaudible
,
taupe
,
timid
,
timorous
,
trembling
,
tremulous
,
trepidant
,
trigger-happy
,
unarticulated
,
unhearable
,
unmanly
,
unmanned
,
unpronounced
,
unsounded
,
unuttered
,
unvocalized
,
unvoiced
,
verminous
,
weak
,
weak-kneed
,
weakhearted
,
whist
,
white-livered
,
yellow
nervous
collapse
easily agitated; "quick nervous movements"
of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder"
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acid
,
agitable
,
agitated
,
all nerves
,
all-overish
,
allergic
,
anaphylactic
,
anxious
,
anxioused up
,
apprehensive
,
bashful
,
biting
,
bothered
,
concerned
,
corrosive
,
cowardly
,
critical
,
cutting
,
delicate
,
difficult
,
diffident
,
discomposed
,
disquieted
,
distressed
,
disturbed
,
driving
,
edgy
,
effective
,
emotional
,
emotionally unstable
,
empathetic
,
empathic
,
eruptive
,
excitable
,
excited
,
explosive
,
fearful
,
fearing
,
fearsome
,
feverish
,
fidgety
,
flurried
,
flustered
,
forceful
,
forcible
,
foreboding
,
fretful
,
frightened
,
goosey
,
goosy
,
gutsy
,
high-mettled
,
high-spirited
,
high-strung
,
highly emotional
,
hyperesthetic
,
hyperpathic
,
hypersensitive
,
imperative
,
impressive
,
in a dither
,
in a pucker
,
in a stew
,
in a sweat
,
in a tizzy
,
in fear
,
incisive
,
inflammable
,
irascible
,
irritable
,
itchy
,
jittery
,
jumpy
,
mettlesome
,
misgiving
,
mordant
,
mousy
,
nerval
,
nerves on edge
,
nervy
,
neural
,
neurological
,
on edge
,
on tenterhooks
,
overanxious
,
overapprehensive
,
overrefined
,
oversensible
,
oversensitive
,
overstrung
,
overtender
,
panicky
,
passible
,
penetrating
,
perturbable
,
perturbed
,
piercing
,
poignant
,
powerful
,
prickly
,
punchy
,
querulous
,
rabbity
,
refined
,
responsive
,
restless
,
ruffled
,
scared
,
scary
,
sensational
,
sensitive
,
shaken
,
shaken up
,
shaky
,
shivery
,
shrinking
,
shy
,
sinewed
,
sinewy
,
skittery
,
skittish
,
slashing
,
snappish
,
solicitous
,
spooky
,
startlish
,
stirred up
,
strained
,
striking
,
strong
,
strung out
,
supersensitive
,
suspenseful
,
sympathetic
,
tactful
,
telling
,
tender
,
tense
,
tetchy
,
thin-skinned
,
ticklish
,
timid
,
timorous
,
touchy
,
trembling
,
tremulous
,
trenchant
,
trepidant
,
trigger-happy
,
troubled
,
troublous
,
turbulent
,
twittery
,
uneasy
,
unpeaceful
,
unquiet
,
unrestful
,
upset
,
uptight
,
vigorous
,
vital
,
volatile
,
volcanic
,
waspish
,
worked up
,
worried
,
wrought up
,
zealous
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