Adjective : a scrupulous performance. From Dictionary.com.
I think that sort of scrupulousness is very ill-bred, if you'll excuse my saying so, Rose. From Wordnik.com. [Rose in Bloom] Reference
Has there been a decline in scrupulousness which tends to obscure boundaries between physics and metaphyscis?. From Wordnik.com. [A Trend?] Reference
"scrupulousness" she contrived to communicate pretty freely by means of Parry, her cofferer, and others, with the outside world. From Wordnik.com. [Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries] Reference
He is constantly accusing me of over-scrupulousness. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
His scrupulousness was part and parcel of his reputation. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
Determined to cultivate ability rather than scrupulousness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This is what journalistic scrupulousness looks like these days. From Wordnik.com. [Marty Kaplan: Bra Helps Fight Breast Cancer] Reference
The types of jên are four, the least of which is that of scrupulousness. From Wordnik.com. [Han Shih Wai Chuan] Reference
But be that as it may, I did warn you about your precious scrupulousness. From Wordnik.com. [Specific Gravity] Reference
Even all of these, however, I shall not relate with minute scrupulousness. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
The vividness of his reporting was not always matched by scrupulousness in fact-gathering. From Wordnik.com. [Orwell centenary: Blair-mania] Reference
Their scrupulousness contrasts sharply with the sloppiness behind recent secret-source gaffes. From Wordnik.com. [June 2005] Reference
But the scholarly scrupulousness with which Holiday in Reality has been executed is surprising. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitney Confronts Reality In Excellent Hopper Exhibition] Reference
Inconveniencies will sometimes arise from having to do with persons of modest and scrupulousness. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
But the latter does not give sufficient security, since it depends too much on the scrupulousness of. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
All his good qualities became overwrought -- his loyalty, his conscientiousness, his scrupulousness. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
Anxiously, she gets a pencil from her reticule, and, with black-gloved scrupulousness, writes Amleto. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
Sometimes it puts more emphasis on creed than on conduct, on Sunday scrupulousness than on Monday scruple. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
Did he know what the patrician nobleman Marcus Valerius Messala Niger meant by aristocratic scrupulousness?. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The country must adopt these candidates, who have been selected with such scrupulousness, honesty, and care. From Wordnik.com. [Fidel Castro Speech on Candidacy Process] Reference
Even in her trouble she could not refrain from a faint smile at his scrupulousness, as she took the door-key. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
But it was all owing to my foolish scrupulousness that I did not carry you off with me when I was leaving town. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
For though that assertion is true, yet it must be received with cautious discrimination and religious scrupulousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3] Reference
And what other country would, for showing such unparalleled moral scrupulousness, be vilified and libelled as Israel is?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
You will now see that you have nothing left but to overcome all scrupulousness, and marry as son as you have an opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Like all men who have determined to cultivate ability rather than scrupulousness, he saw all things developing to his satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There are many others, less serious in their nature, such as indecision, exaggerated scrupulousness, extreme pliability, hypochondria. From Wordnik.com. [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference
The scrupulousness which refines his work gives quality to his narrative, and he can be read with pleasure by persons of exacting taste. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
His scrupulousness surprised Marius, used now to the utter indifference with which the Roman upper classes viewed their household slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
However, such means require both hard scrupulousness and moral obduracy, qualities he cannot muster without risking his personal integrity. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1962 - Presentation Speech] Reference
On the score of delicacy, or any scrupulousness which. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
She was indignant with the Brandon scrupulousness; it chafed her. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
At Tournay, the greatest scrupulousness was observed upon this point. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
He had great qualities, and his excess of scrupulousness was most pitiable. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
It is easy to pooh-pooh his crusade against Sabbath labour as mere scrupulousness about externals. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
He was a stickler for detail and that scrupulousness sometimes infuriated colleagues who were itching to make deals. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Martin] Reference
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