0 a feeling that prevents you from doing something that you think is morally wrong or makes you uncertain about doing it:
Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
He is a man without scruple - he has no conscience.
1 to not care that something you do is morally wrong or likely to have bad results:
2 a strong belief about what is right or wrong that governs your actions:
The left with its scruples about the world's first socialist country and its fear of providing grist to the right's mill.
They must have had some scruples about it.
I have no scruples whatsoever in that connection.
He is stubborn, ruthless, intelligent and devoid of moral scruples—the most dangerous kind of opponent.
He was of a shy and retiring disposition, and he had some scruples about using violence to meet violence.
Obviously that is an exaggeration, because many doctors, even if they did not respect the law, have religious scruples about doing anything of the sort.
Many of these wrecked cars get into the hands of back-street repairers who have no scruples.
If a person does that he does not bargain; he does nothing except insist that his scruples shall be respected.