Read full poem →You cannot be with us. Go, then, depart;
But be not over scrupulous, my son.
Dictionary Entry
Exactly and carefully conducted.
In a Sentence
“He is scrupulous in his finances.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “scrupulous”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →For war's crushed myriads of his slaughtered foes.
He is right scrupulous in one pretext
And wholesale errors swallows in the next.
Read full poem →[I have heard the third verse of this very moving Prayer quoted by
scrupulous men as a proof that the poet imputed his errors to the
Being who had endowed him with wild and unruly passions. The meaning