Scrupulous
adjective
Doing things carefully and correctly.
He was scrupulous in his attention to detail.
Often appears as...
- scrupulous about
- scrupulous with
adjective
Concerned to avoid doing wrong.
A scrupulous teacher won't let their students cheat on a test.
Often appears as...
- scrupulous honesty
- scrupulous person
adjective
Doing things carefully and correctly.
He was scrupulous in his attention to detail.
Often appears as...
- scrupulous about
- scrupulous with
adjective
Concerned to avoid doing wrong.
A scrupulous teacher won't let their students cheat on a test.
Often appears as...
- scrupulous honesty
- scrupulous person
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Attention to Detail
Use 'scrupulous' to describe someone who pays careful attention to every small part or detail of something.
Her scrupulous approach ensured every event she planned ran smoothly.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Impression
'Scrupulous' often gives a positive impression of a person's thoroughness in tasks or responsibilities.
His scrupulous work ethic earned him the respect of his colleagues.
Pro Tip 3/3Work Context
This word is particularly useful in professional contexts, where precision and care are valued.
The scrupulous audit uncovered no irregularities in the accounts.
Pro Tip 1/3Attention to Detail
Use 'scrupulous' to describe someone who pays careful attention to every small part or detail of something.
Her scrupulous approach ensured every event she planned ran smoothly.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Impression
'Scrupulous' often gives a positive impression of a person's thoroughness in tasks or responsibilities.
His scrupulous work ethic earned him the respect of his colleagues.
Pro Tip 3/3Work Context
This word is particularly useful in professional contexts, where precision and care are valued.
The scrupulous audit uncovered no irregularities in the accounts.
Pro Tip 1/3Attention to Detail
Use 'scrupulous' to describe someone who pays careful attention to every small part or detail of something.
Her scrupulous approach ensured every event she planned ran smoothly.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Impression
'Scrupulous' often gives a positive impression of a person's thoroughness in tasks or responsibilities.
His scrupulous work ethic earned him the respect of his colleagues.
Pro Tip 3/3Work Context
This word is particularly useful in professional contexts, where precision and care are valued.
The scrupulous audit uncovered no irregularities in the accounts.
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Jorge Ramos: Why...
if a house is blue, I say that it's blue. If there are a million unemployed people, I say there are a million. But neutrality won't necessarily lead me to the truth. Even if I'm unequivocally scrupulous,
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Jorge Ramos: Why...
if a house is blue, I say that it's blue. If there are a million unemployed people, I say there are a million. But neutrality won't necessarily lead me to the truth. Even if I'm unequivocally scrupulous,
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Quote examples
Kim Jong-un
North Korean Leader
All sectors of the national economy should make scrupulous arrangements for economic planning and guidance to boost production by tapping every possible reserve and potentiality, and work out in a scientific way the immediate plans and long-term strategies for stage-by-stage development and push ahead with them in a persistent manner.
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Tom Holland
English Actor
There are so many things we have not seen in 'Spider-Man' yet... I want to use bad guys never seen in movies. The first films were so traditional and so scrupulously followed the character's classic plot... So there's a lot of stuff left in stock. 'The Clone Saga,' for example.
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Elmer Davis
American Journalist
The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded.
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Jim Garrison
American Public Servant
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.
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Joseph Conrad
Polish Novelist
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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George Eliot
British Author
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
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Allen Weinstein
American Public Servant
Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
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Kathryn Lasky
American Author
I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.
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Julien Green
American Novelist
A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.
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Kim Jong-un
North Korean Leader
All sectors of the national economy should make scrupulous arrangements for economic planning and guidance to boost production by tapping every possible reserve and potentiality, and work out in a scientific way the immediate plans and long-term strategies for stage-by-stage development and push ahead with them in a persistent manner.
Quote examples
Tom Holland
English Actor
There are so many things we have not seen in 'Spider-Man' yet... I want to use bad guys never seen in movies. The first films were so traditional and so scrupulously followed the character's classic plot... So there's a lot of stuff left in stock. 'The Clone Saga,' for example.
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Elmer Davis
American Journalist
The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded.
Quote examples
Jim Garrison
American Public Servant
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.
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Joseph Conrad
Polish Novelist
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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George Eliot
British Author
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
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Allen Weinstein
American Public Servant
Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
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Kathryn Lasky
American Author
I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.
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Julien Green
American Novelist
A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.
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