verb

definition

To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.

definition

To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

definition

To regard with suspicion; to question.

definition

To question the truth of (a fact, etc.); to doubt; to hesitate to believe, to question.

example

I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.

Examples of scrupled in a Sentence

Descartes occasionally had not scrupled to interpret the Scriptures according to his own tenets, while still maintaining, when their letter contradicted him, that the Bible was not meant to teach the sciences.

His ministers he never scrupled to sacrifice to his ease.

He now maintained not only that it was a sin that kings should invest prelates with their spiritual insignia, the pallium, the staff, the ring, but claimed that no clerk ought to do homage to the king for the lands of his benefice, though he himself seven years before had not scrupled to make his oath to his earlier master.

When it was a question of winning followers or keeping them, he had not scrupled to lay hands on ecclesiastical property, nor to fill the Church with his friends and kinsfolk, and this alliance might embarrass him.

The men of Mawddwy were very fierce, and never scrupled to take anything they could set their hands on.

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