Scruples

They were sometimes called the “robber barons” because of their lack of scruples about the means employed to develop their personal fortune.

Any kind of contraception, even “an incomplete act” of intercourse, “offended Alice’s religious scruples,” Leckie wrote, because she believed the purpose of sex was to have children.

In his grave, he possibly had seen the Nigeria drama of Afri-colonialism, when dogs eat dogs to grow fat without scruples.

I watched some of them change like chameleons, professing support for one group or the other to the extent of having no scruples in putting the lives of even the bishops in danger.

Others who have fewer political scruples have questioned whether the projects devised are too ambitious.

App reviews, positive app comments and high download counts are cheap to buy if you have no scruples.

Krishna), Drashtha (aggressive, bold, a little rude, does not respond when a woman is angry, but tries to pacify, inconsiderate), Shatha (deceitful, no scruples, no respect towards women).

No moral scruples would prevent him from encouraging people in a delusion from which he profits somehow; ask the suckers who signed up for Trump University about that.

While some Demons appear to have retained semblance of emotion or even a slight sense of moral scruples, this cannot be said for Doma, a sadistic Upper Two Demon.

Ashish the serial dater suddenly and improbably discovers he has left-over scruples connected to his older, forgotten life which includes a still-attractive wife (Tabu), two grown kids, and a couple of disapproving grandparents.

Few other presidents have shared Jackson’s scruples over the matter, however.

Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Bintony Kutsaira is one such person who has no scruples peddling lies to 17.5 million Malawians so that he can continue to put bread on the table.

Resident Muslim: omegaic: If someone is looking to Tinder for "dates," they will have no scruples about the lack of security.

What nagging scruples or pricks of conscience they may have are assuaged by their need for self-preservation, which makes their silence appear logical and rational in the reign of terror.

Apothecaries also used the troy pound and ounce, but added the drachms and scruples unit in the Apothecaries' system of weights.

Britain’s ranking was "ascribed to factors such as the decline of religious scruples about extramarital sex, the growth of equal pay and equal rights for women and a highly sexualised popular culture".

Cited in Gregor-Dellin (1983) 337–8 and Wagner in his responses had no scruples about counterfeiting a similar atmosphere.

If some of you might have scruples against the first 14 July, they certainly hold none against the second.

In order to secure the cooperation of all his vassals in his plans for the invasion, Philip denounced John as an enemy of the Church, thereby justifying his attack as motivated solely by religious scruples.

It was calculated to offend nobody except Democrats."sfn Although Harding did not attack Foraker, his supporters had no such scruples.