1 careful about paying attention to every detail
SYNMETICULOUS:
You must be scrupulous about hygiene when you're preparing a baby's feed. * scrupulous attention to detail
2 ~ (in sth / in doing sth) careful to be honest and do what is right:
She had a reputation for scrupulous honesty. * He was scrupulous in all his business dealings.
OPPUNSCRUPULOUS
scrupulously adverb:
Her house is scrupulously clean. * to be scrupulously fair / honest
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is scrupulous a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, scrupulous is tagged as adjective.
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