1. scruple - Noun
2. scruple - Verb
A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.
Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.
To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.
To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.” -Elizabeth Bennet. Jane Austen
If I had the force to overthrow these despotic laws I would use it without an instant's hesitation or delay, but I haven't got it, and so I am law-abiding under protest - not from scruple - and bide my time. Eugene V. Debs
As a revolutionist I can have no respect for capitalist property laws, nor the least scruple about violating them. I hold all such laws to have been enacted through chicanry, fraud and corruption, with the sole end in view of dispossessing, robbing and enslaving the working class. Eugene V. Debs
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it. Elizabeth Peters
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life. Fernando Pessoa
Many scruple to spit in church, and afterwards defile the altar. Italian Proverb