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Synonyms & Antonyms of scruples
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- went about her business without even a scruple of suspicion
Synonyms for scruples
- aces,
- bits,
- crumbs,
- dabs,
- drams,
- driblets,
- glimmers,
- hints,
- licks,
- little,
- mites,
- nips,
- ounces,
- particles,
- peanuts,
- rays,
- scintillas,
- shades,
- shadows,
- shreds,
- skoshes,
- smacks,
- smells,
- smidgens
- (also smidgeons or smidgins or smidges),
- snaps,
- soupçons,
- sparks,
- spatters,
- specks,
- splashes,
- spots,
- sprinklings,
- strains,
- streaks,
- suspicions,
- touches,
- traces
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Near Antonyms for scruples
- 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
- left just a scruple of asparagus on the plate
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- 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 or smidgins or smidges),
- spots,
- strains,
- streaks,
- suspicions,
- tastes,
- touches,
- traces,
- whispers,
- whits
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scruples
noun (2)Synonyms & Antonyms of scruples (Entry 2 of 3)
- the survey showed that many students had few scruples about cheating on papers or exams
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scruples
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of scruples (Entry 3 of 3)
- a tabloid journalist who has never scrupled to reveal the most intimate details about the lives of celebrities
Synonyms for scruples
- balances,
- dithers,
- falters,
- halts,
- hangs back,
- hesitates,
- shilly-shallies,
- staggers,
- teeters,
- vacillates,
- wavers,
- wobbles
- (also wabbles)
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