scrupulosity

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Recent Examples of scrupulosity His efforts to repent led him into a spiral of extreme scrupulosity. Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2021 His function is purely semiotic, and objections to him are hardly rooted in scrupulosity about matters of fact or logic. Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 Oct. 2019 There was no attempt to get to the bottom of what really happened, no rigor, no scrupulosity, no care for the actual event. Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrupulosity
Noun
  • From the moment the book was announced, many commentators have questioned the morality of her estate and publisher profiting off such intensely private and essentially medical documents.
    Evelyn McDonnell June 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
  • More to Explore Gamification, Then and Now Livia Gershon March 20, 2017 Nineteenth-century board games help to map public morality, from religious virtue to upward mobility.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • And as readers no doubt know by virtue of clicking on a review about a golf book, Johnson could have had so many more.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • For the Ancient Greek philosopher, the mother of all virtues was phronesis, or practical wisdom.
    Sigal Samuel, Vox, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • When hate pokes up its ugly head, love overshadows it with goodness and gracefulness and purpose.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
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    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • The film is a poem, its images made up of slumped torsos, of sidelong glances—and so the rectitude strikes us.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
  • Jang Won-seok, a veteran film producer and CEO of production studio BA Entertainment, says local movie stars’ only option is to toe a line of total moral rectitude.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025

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“Scrupulosity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrupulosity. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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