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scruple

an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action

uneasiness about the fitness of an action

a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains

have doubts about

raise scruples; "He lied and did not even scruple about it"

hesitate on moral grounds; "The man scrupled to perjure himself"

Synonyms:

• Pyrrhonism,
• ace,
• apprehension,
• atom,
• awake a doubt,
• back down,
• balance,
• balk,
• balk at,
• bashfulness,
• be diffident,
• be doubtful,
• be dubious,
• be skeptical,
• be uncertain,
• beef,
• better self,
• bit,
• bitch,
• blench,
• boggle,
• boggling,
• boycott,
• call in question,
• challenge,
• complain,
• complaint,
• compunction,
• conscience,
• conscientiousness,
• contest,
• cry out against,
• dab,
• debate,
• deliberate,
• demonstrate,
• demonstrate against,
• demonstration,
• demur,
• demurral,
• demurrer,
• diffidence,
• discomfort,
• dispute,
• distrust,
• distrustfulness,
• dole,
• dot,
• doubt,
• doubtfulness,
• dram,
• dribble,
• driblet,
• dubiety,
• dubiousness,
• dwarf,
• enter a protest,
• exception,
• expostulate,
• expostulation,
• falter,
• faltering,
• farthing,
• fastidiousness,
• fear,
• fight shy of,
• fleck,
• flinch,
• flyspeck,
• fragment,
• fret,
• gag,
• gobbet,
• grain,
• granule,
• greet with skepticism,
• grievance,
• grievance committee,
• groat,
• hair,
• half believe,
• half-belief,
• handful,
• hang back,
• hang off,
• harbor suspicions,
• have qualms,
• have reservations,
• hem and haw,
• hesitance,
• hesitancy,
• hesitate,
• hesitation,
• hold off,
• holler,
• hover,
• howl,
• hum and haw,
• indignation meeting,
• iota,
• jib,
• jot,
• kick,
• leeriness,
• little,
• little bit,
• lota,
• make bones about,
• march,
• meticulousness,
• minim,
• minimum,
• minutiae,
• misdoubt,
• misgive,
• misgiving,
• mistrust,
• mistrustfulness,
• mite,
• modesty,
• modicum,
• molecule,
• mote,
• nonviolent protest,
• nutshell,
• object,
• objection,
• ounce,
• overconscientiousness,
• overscrupulousness,
• pangs,
• pangs of conscience,
• particle,
• pause,
• pebble,
• picket,
• picketing,
• pinch,
• pittance,
• point,
• point of honor,
• ponder,
• press objections,
• pricking of heart,
• protest,
• protest demonstration,
• protestation,
• pull back,
• punctilio,
• punctiliousness,
• quail,
• qualm,
• qualm of conscience,
• qualmishness,
• qualms,
• query,
• question,
• raise a howl,
• raise a question,
• rally,
• recoil,
• reconsideration,
• reluctance,
• remonstrance,
• remonstrate,
• remonstration,
• retreat,
• scrap,
• scruples,
• scrupulosity,
• scrupulousness,
• second thought,
• second thoughts,
• self-doubt,
• shadow of doubt,
• shilly-shally,
• shred,
• shrink,
• shrink from,
• shrinking,
• shy,
• shy at,
• shyness,
• sit in,
• sit-in,
• skepticalness,
• skepticism,
• smell a rat,
• smidgen,
• smitch,
• speck,
• spoonful,
• spot,
• squawk,
• squeamishness,
• state a grievance,
• stick,
• stick at,
• stickle,
• stickling,
• stop to consider,
• straddle the fence,
• strain,
• strain at,
• strike,
• stumble,
• suspect,
• suspicion,
• suspiciousness,
• teach in,
• teach-in,
• thimbleful,
• think twice about,
• throes,
• throw doubt upon,
• tiny bit,
• tittle,
• total skepticism,
• touch of conscience,
• treat with reserve,
• trifling amount,
• trivia,
• twinge of conscience,
• uncertainty,
• uneasiness,
• vacillate,
• voice of conscience,
• wariness,
• waver,
• whit,
• wince,
• withdraw,
• worry,
• yell bloody murder,
• yield