scruple

englanti

(yleensä monikossa) tunnontuska, epäröinti (asian moraalisuuden suhteen), häikäileminen
historia|farmasia|k=en skruupeli, krupula; vanha apteekkimitta, n. 1,3 grammaa
vanha hitunen, hiukkanen

Esimerkkejä scruple sanan käytöstä:

He had no scruples about working for a foreign power.

without scruple

Liittyvät sanat: scrupulous

Synonyymisanakirja

scruple

periaate, tunnontuska, apteekkipainomitta, apteekkipaino, apteekkarin mitta, kummastella, kyseenalaistaa, epäröidä.

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Käännökset

englanti

empiä

tunnontuska

epäröidä

apteekkarin mitta puhekieltä A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
puhekieltä Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.
Ca 1601–1608, w:William Shakespeare|Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II Scene 3 221–222

Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.

He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples. - w:Thomas Babington Macaulay|Thomas Babington Macaulay.

puhekieltä A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
A measurement of time. Hebrew culture broke the hour into 1080 scruples.
puhekieltä To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.

We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may. - w:Thomas Fuller|Thomas Fuller.

Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship. - w:Robert South|Robert South.

To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.

Others long before them ... scrupled more the books of hereties than of gentiles. - w:John Milton|John Milton.

puhekieltä To doubt; to question; to hesitate to believe; to question the truth of (a fact, etc.).

I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.

To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

Letters which did still scruple many of them. -E. Symmons.

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scruple rimmaa näiden kanssa:

ale, ginger ale, chippendale, kale, riekale, roikale, suikale, kekkale, vonkale, huiskale

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science fiction, scifi, scifi-elokuva, scifi-romaani, se, seassa

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