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Synonyms and Antonyms of scruples
- went about her business without even a scruple of suspicion
aces, bits, crumbs, dabs, drams, driblets, glimmers, hints, licks, little, mites, nips, ounces, particles, peanuts, rays, scintillae (or scintillas), shades, shadows, shreds, skoshes, smacks, smells, smidgens (also smidgeons), snaps, soupçons, sparks, spatters, specks, splashes, spots, sprinklings, strains, streaks, suspicions, touches, traces
hoots, iotas, jots, minims, minima (or minimums), modicums, semblances, syllables, tittles, vestiges, whits
atoms, dots, flecks, flyspecks, grains, granules, molecules, morsels, motes, nubbins, patches, scraps
handfuls (also handsful), scatterings, smatters, smatterings
chips, flakes, fragments, shards, shivers, slivers, smithereens, splinters
abundances, barrels, boatloads, buckets, bundles, bushels, deals, fistfuls, gobs, heaps, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lots, masses, messes, mountains, much, oodles, passels, pecks, piles, plenties, potfuls, profusions, quantities, rafts, reams, scads, stacks, wads, wealths
bonanzas, embarrassments, excesses, overabundances, overages, overflows, overkills, overmuch, oversupplies, superabundances, superfluities, surfeits, surpluses
- left just a scruple of asparagus on the plate
aces, dabs, dashes, driblets, drops, fractions, haets [chiefly Scottish], halfpence (or halfpennies), ha'pennies, iotas, jots, kennings [chiefly Scottish], licks, minims, mites, modicums, nutshells, ounces, pinches, shreds, smatters, smidgens (also smidgeons), spots, strains, streaks, suspicions, tastes, touches, traces, whispers, whits
bites, mouthfuls, nibbles, tidbits (also titbits)
fragments, parts, portions, sections
Synonyms and Antonyms of scruples
- the survey showed that many students had few scruples about cheating on papers or exams
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