Scrupulously

//ˈskɹuːpjʊləsli//

"Scrupulously" in a Sentence (9 examples)

Thou shalt perform scrupulously thy feudal duties, if they be not contrary to the laws of God.

Tom has always been scrupulously honest in his dealings with us.

But, from head to foot she was scrupulously clean, and maintained a kind of dislocated tidiness.

It was difficult at that time to become acquainted with the history of a Scottish family above the lower rank; and strange things sometimes took place there, into which even the law did not scrupulously inquire.

Her bearing was grave and modest, and her attire scrupulously plain; but there are cases in which sovereign beauty will assert herself, and Ethel Gray, the newly appointed school-mistress, was more than pretty.

They were frightened when he threatened this, and promised to obey him scrupulously if he would but promise not to desert them.

Stock is generally well maintained, and the locomotives and railcars are kept scrupulously clean. The former are painted an unrelieved black, and the latter blue and cream, while the coaches are grey.

Some of them have, in fact, given them a theoretical elaboration which for subtlety, refinement, and elegance need make no apologies to the older economics, and which remains faithful to older theorizing in at least one respect, that the tradition of unintelligibility to the layman is scrupulously observed.

The citizens of India and Japan have elected nationalist leaders who many say they believe champion a more closed form of identity than their predecessors. While these leaders have observed the principles of liberalism more scrupulously than the Orbáns or Erdogans of the world, their critics suspect that they are quietly fostering intolerance among their supporters.

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