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Перевод: scruple

[существительное]
скрупул ; крупица ; сомнение; колебания ; угрызения совести;
[глагол]
не решаться; сомневаться; стесняться; совеститься

Тезаурус:

1. If we find that human faculties and understandings are such that knowledge is necessarily limited, we might more easily and "with less scruple acquiesce in the avowed ignorance" of what lies beyond the horizon, and "employ our thoughts and discourse, with more advantage and satisfaction" about what lies within our reach.
2. (My dad never touched the pig, though I was sure this was conditioning rather than religious scruple, just as I wouldn't eat horse's scrotum.
3. And we tell our graduate students that they must never take such risks, construing as scruple what in fact is timidity.
4. Then, in 1067, Ferdinand's widow died, thus removing any scruple remaining in the mind of Sancho towards honouring the partition.
5. The old campaigner's sense of what was honourable in such matters was more acute than the three sons of George III who, in the words of the author of the tract The Royal Criterion (1814) "resorted to every mode of raising money without a scruple as to the means."
6. Dr Warton did not scruple, on occasion, to visit a dying woman taking his own young children with him; he describes how, despite the dirt on the floor, they knelt around her bed in attitudes of prayer.
7. I pushed past - calamity kills scruple - and explained that I was late because I had been robbed.
8. He has the less scruple in issuing such orders because he can say that he is really doing what is in the man's own highest interest.
9. Nuisances and abominations of all sorts are without scruple committed to the streets at any hour of the day of night, to await the morning visit of the scavenger to remove them: and happy indeed is it for the humble pedestrian if his eye and nose alone suffer from these ejectments; happy indeed if he comes not in contact with them, as they make their unceremonious exit from window or door
10. For such people any contact with the Court would have been the ultimate in defilement - though it should be noted that some of the husbands showed less scruple in accepting governmental places, even to the extent of standing for elections and taking the oath of loyalty to the Emperor and the Constitution.
11. "I know full well that, frankly speaking, prostitutes are bad, but I feel something human in them which prevents me from feeling the slightest scruple about associating with them.
12. But the experience had been short and isolated and the moonlight had given it a sufficient touch of unreality for me to be able to fire my machine gun at everything I saw without scruple.
13. Any compiler of a catalogue raisonn will have seen and compared all the works listed, or will scruple to state if some work has proved inaccessible.