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1. Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
   - conscience, moral sense, sense of right and wrong

1. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains
    
2. Uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety)
   - qualm, misgiving
    
3. An ethical or moral principle that inhibits action

1. Hesitate on moral grounds
   "The man scrupled to perjure himself"
    
2. Raise scruples
   "He lied and did not even scruple about it"
    
3. Have doubts about

Type of: anxiety, apothecaries' unit, apothecaries' weight, ethical motive, ethics, fret, fuss, hesitate, morality, morals, niggle, pause, principle, question, wonder

Part of: drachm, drachma, dram

Encyclopedia: Scruples