scrupulosity

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Recent Examples of scrupulosity His efforts to repent led him into a spiral of extreme scrupulosity. Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2021 His function is purely semiotic, and objections to him are hardly rooted in scrupulosity about matters of fact or logic. Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 Oct. 2019 There was no attempt to get to the bottom of what really happened, no rigor, no scrupulosity, no care for the actual event. Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrupulosity
Noun
  • But the movie adds nothing distinctive regarding the psychology or the morality of violence.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Specifically saying these white, thin, traditionally feminine bodies are not just aspirational but symbols of morality, tradition, purity.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And both the book and the film offered historically nonsensical versions of the Klan as an honorable and chivalrous group fighting for social justice and the virtue of white womanhood.
    Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2025
  • That might sound sadistic; indeed, sadism is something of a Hitchcockian virtue.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Two buttery and crunchy layers hold in all the goodness of the jammy blueberry and lemon duo.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Someone who believed in the innate goodness of people who posted comments on the internet.
    Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This was just the sort of place, it was hoped, where Donald would mature into a young man of rectitude and self-regulation.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2025
  • There is a good deal of this kind of humor, along with plenty of rectitude.
    Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 30 June 2025

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“Scrupulosity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrupulosity. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

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