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Princeton's WordNet

  1. conscience, scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrongnoun

    motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions

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  1. scruples

    Conscience is a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system. Conscience stands in contrast to elicited emotion or thought due to associations based on immediate sensory perceptions and reflexive responses, as in sympathetic central nervous system responses. In common terms, conscience is often described as leading to feelings of remorse when a person commits an act that conflicts with their moral values. The extent to which conscience informs moral judgment before an action and whether such moral judgments are or should be based on reason has occasioned debate through much of modern history between theories of basics in ethic of human life in juxtaposition to the theories of romanticism and other reactionary movements after the end of the Middle Ages. Religious views of conscience usually see it as linked to a morality inherent in all humans, to a beneficent universe and/or to divinity. The diverse ritualistic, mythical, doctrinal, legal, institutional and material features of religion may not necessarily cohere with experiential, emotive, spiritual or contemplative considerations about the origin and operation of conscience. Common secular or scientific views regard the capacity for conscience as probably genetically determined, with its subject probably learned or imprinted as part of a culture.Commonly used metaphors for conscience include the "voice within", the "inner light", or even Socrates' reliance on what the Greeks called his "daimōnic sign", an averting (ἀποτρεπτικός apotreptikos) inner voice heard only when he was about to make a mistake. Conscience, as is detailed in sections below, is a concept in national and international law, is increasingly conceived of as applying to the world as a whole, has motivated numerous notable acts for the public good and been the subject of many prominent examples of literature, music and film.

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  1. scruples

    Scruples refer to feelings of doubt or hesitation regarding the morality or propriety of a course of action. These are ethical considerations or principles that restrain one's behavior and prevent them from doing something wrong.

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  1. Scruples

    Scruples is a 1978 novel by Judith Krantz. A direct sequel, Scruples Two, was published in 1992. The novel details the life story of protagonist Wilhelmina Hunnewell Winthrop, as she evolves from the overweight "poor relation" in an aristocratic Boston Brahmin family to become a thin, stylish woman who is left a vast fortune by the death of her much older first husband and who founds an upscale Beverly Hills boutique called "Scruples."

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scruples in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scruples in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of scruples in a Sentence

  1. Ogden Nash:

    He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.

  2. Jim Manley:

    I played a lot of hardball in my life, but I don't envy what the Clinton campaign is up against here. Trump himself has totally changed the political dynamic, what they can't afford to do is get in the gutter with the guy. He has absolutely no morals or scruples. Getting into the gutter with him is an absolute waste of time.

  3. John Oliver Hobbes:

    Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

  4. Christine Lambrecht:

    One thing is certain: the current situation means we need to do more together, the brutal Russian war of aggression in Ukraine is getting more and more brutal and unscrupulous... Russia’s threat of nuclear weapons shows that Russian authorities have no scruples.

  5. Alfred Hitchcock:

    There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

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