0 a feeling that prevents you from doing something that you think is morally wrong or makes you uncertain about doing it: --
He is a man without scruple - he has no conscience.
Robin Hood had no scruples about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
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 media picture themselves as the upholders of rectitude, but many members of the media have neither principles nor scruples.
I have tried hard to put out of my mind any trivial and foolish or affected scruples in this matter.
What we have to do, apparently, is to throw over our moral scruples.
Indeed, it is very important for someone with the scruples that he has to make that bold statement and demonstrate by example.
We do not have these scruples for magistrates' courts.
A nation that denies those freedoms to its own people will have few scruples about denying them to others, agreements or no agreements.
Her own innate scruples make her loath to occupy this all-providing, all-deciding, monolithic role among responsible, civilised mankind.
If a person does that he does not bargain; he does nothing except insist that his scruples shall be respected.
