"overscrupulous" indicates that there are different levels of scruples. ❋ Unknown (2009)
One could say that Dixon proceeds through a kind of expository shorthand -- "Rings twice more and stops" -- that while "attached" to the character as a frame of reference is otherwise a way of dispensing with the overscrupulous explication of consciousness that so often and so tediously passes for "psychological realism" in contemporary literary fiction. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He, of course, for awhile tried his band at persuading Mr. Harding that he was foolish, overscrupulous, self-willed, and weak-minded, but he tried in vain. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In times like these… it will not do to be overscrupulous. ❋ Richard Brookhiser (1999)
That is what gave him the reputation of being not altogether a man of honor, capable of letting people down, capable, with an easy smile and a laugh, of transforming one policy into another, and not really being overscrupulous about whom he happened to drown in the process. ❋ Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1998)
It had seemed to him, during those dreadful days, that although some instinct within him forbade him to end his own life, none could doubt his right to alleviate his mental suffering by any means he knew; and when temporary oblivion, a blessed forgetfulness, could be purchased at the price of a pinprick, it seemed not only overscrupulous but foolish to forgo that ❋ Kathlyn Rhodes (N/A)
It was as if an overscrupulous remembrance of hard days forced him to disclaim kinship with anything so finely feminine as Constantia Wyatt; as if he found no right of way from his own world of concrete fact into that delicate gracious world of illusions in which he placed her. ❋ Marguerite Bryant (N/A)
The gentleman whom our hero was questioning was a lawyer, a very shrewd man, who had the reputation of not being overscrupulous, but there were reasons why he desired to oblige our hero, and after a moment he said: ❋ Harlan Page Halsey (N/A)
Mary was almost overscrupulous about not allowing them to disturb the two, who were supposed to be giving all their time and effort to language study. ❋ Mabel Williamson (N/A)
You are a foolish and an overscrupulous man, Reuben Hallowell, for I say that such a reason makes all the more haste for her to be gone. ❋ Unknown (1922)
I have not been overscrupulous in this matter, for the essay is a mood rather that a form; the frontier between the essay and the short story is as imperceptible as is at present the once famous Mason and Dixon line. ❋ Christopher Morley (1921)
Accompanied perhaps by Riggs, who had shown himself not overscrupulous until he quarreled with his employer, he had gone across to the railroad embankment, and, by jumping in front of the car, had caused Halsey to swerve. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
The American side was bright and clean, orderly and self-respecting, but only a hundred feet away, unkempt, dusty, with adobe buildings and a notorious gambling-hell in plain view, was Mexico itself -- leisurely, improvident, not overscrupulous Mexico. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
Each of us had to show an alert and not overscrupulous self-reliance in order to obtain food for his men, provender for his horses, or transportation of any kind for any object. ❋ Unknown (1913)
In the past he had had experience with the rodents and vermin that infest every native village, and, while he was not overscrupulous about such matters, he much preferred the fresh air of the swaying trees to the fetid atmosphere of a hut. ❋ Unknown (1913)
I don't like to see you letting success and -- and all the rest of it pass you by, when other men, not so overscrupulous, do succeed. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
