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UK
/skɹˈuːpjʊləsli/
]
[ US /ˈskɹupjəɫəsɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈskɹupjəɫəsɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
with extreme conscientiousness
he came religiously every morning at 8 o'clock
How To Use scrupulously In A Sentence
- Moreover, she is being asked to do this while remaining scrupulously impartial and keeping the viewer entertained with talk of trade deals, tariffs and employment figures. Times, Sunday Times
- If to "get 'borked' was 'to be unscrupulously torpedoed by an opponent ... to get' miered '[i] s to be' unscrupulously torpedoed by an ally. ' Revolution
- The floors were scrupulously polished pine; there were gas lights on the walls and lacy curtains.
- Year in, year out, the display remained unchanged, though it was scrupulously vacuumed and dusted.
- Meanwhile, the country – the Paris magazine describes it scrupulously as Grande Bretagne, though Amis is happier with Angleterre – is infused with "moral decrepitude". Cursing one's homeland before fleeing overseas, Martin Amis, is a cliche
- If we must choose between a society that is in fact liberal and an illiberal society that scrupulously avoids formal racial criteria, we can hardly appeal to the ideals of liberal pluralism to prefer the latter.
- I hope thou hast also undergone that true baphometic fire-baptism, whereof the worthy Diogenes Teufelsdröckh hath discoursed so appetizingly, causing us to long after it, none the less that he hath scrupulously refrained from expounding whatever it is. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
- Moreover, she is being asked to do this while remaining scrupulously impartial and keeping the viewer entertained with talk of trade deals, tariffs and employment figures. Times, Sunday Times
- Being schooled in scientific practice, they believe that in dealing with prayer as a phenomenon they should scrupulously follow the formulas outlined in the Bible which they described as the textbook of spiritual science. The Power of Positive Thinking
- In our image, after our likeness I do not scrupulously insist upon the particles B+, (beth,) and K+, (caph [90]) I know not whether there is anything solid in the opinion of some who hold that this is said, because the image of God was only shadowed forth in man till he should arrive at his perfection. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1