| Front | scruple |
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| Back | podstatné jméno a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action. I had no scruples about eavesdropping a unit of weight equal to 20 grains, used by apothecaries. Oil of the seed, given from half a scruple to half a dram, in some liquor, or a spoonful of juice in some wine, taken before the fit comes on, and the person is put to bed, cures quotidians and quartans. sloveso hesitate or be reluctant to do something that one thinks may be wrong. she doesn't scruple to ask her parents for money synonyma: hesitate to, be reluctant to, be loath to, have qualms about, have scruples about, . (without scruple). |
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