Synonyms

1. conscientious
2. painstaking

Sentence Examples

1. Morrel, and I shall say that he is a man honorable to the last degree, and who has up to this time fulfilled every engagement with scrupulous punctuality.
2. Indeed, however rich the imagination displayed in this ingenious fiction, it wanted much of the force which might have been given it by a more scrupulous attention to facts and to general analogy.
3. But the gang which has drawn upon itself the pointed animadversion, although the somewhat tardy and very suspicious evidence of Madame Deluc, is the only gang which is represented by that honest and scrupulous old lady as having eaten her cakes and swallowed her brandy, without putting themselves to the trouble of making her payment.
4. But as to counts, marquises, dukes, earls, and the like, I was not so scrupulous.
5. Oh, I assure you, sir, it was a touching spectacle to see these young creatures, destined by their talents for higher stations, toiling together, and through their unwillingness to change any of the customs of their paternal house, taking six years to accomplish what less scrupulous people would have effected in two or three.
6. The bills signed by Morrel were presented at his office with scrupulous exactitude, and, thanks to the delay granted by the Englishman, were paid by Cocles with equal punctuality.
7. And as he is so scrupulous in his observance of the laws of knight-errantry, he will, no doubt, in order to keep his word, obey the injunction I have laid upon him.
8. She agreed, like the widow, only after much scrupulous soul-searching, but Hibbitt got his own way and continued to plot his conspiracy.
9. While Don Quixote and Sancho were shut up together, they had a discussion which the history records with great precision and scrupulous exactness.
10. Had he been less scrupulous he could undoubtedly have put all of this information to good, lucrative use, but that was contrary to his nature.