Sentences with 'scruples'

Example sentences and phrases with the word scruples and other words derived from it.

« the peasants could not afford to fight the rich at court, and the rich had few scruples about hiring thugs to terrorise the peasants into submission. »
« They understood that Parliament had re-asserted its right to tax without representation, and feared that the Tea Act was intended to seduce them into yielding on this important principle by lowering the price of tea to such an extent that the colonists might abandon their scruples. »
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