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overscrupulous

/oh-ver-skroo-pyuh-luhs/US // ˈoʊ vərˈskru pyə ləs //

不择手段,不择手段的,不良,不良行为

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : excessively scrupulous.

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Examples

  • After all, might there not be such a thing as an overscrupulous judgment of motive and action for the man of the world?

  • 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.

  • Both were determined to make money when it was possible, and were, sometimes, not overscrupulous in their transactions.

  • Each class is rigidly sure of the rightness of its own ends and hence not overscrupulous about the means of attaining them.

  • Otherwise for ourselves we only want what we want when we want it, not being overscrupulous about the means we take to get it.