Sentence examples for no scruple from inspiring English sources

There is no scruple there to overcome.

THE novelist Anatole France once ingenuously offered this advice to fellow writers: "When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it".

In The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, Marlowe portrays another power-hungry figure in the Jew Barabas, who in the villainous society of Christian Malta shows no scruple in self-advancement.

Seven Lies by James Lasdun 199pp, Jonathan Cape, £14.99 One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

He criticizes as "shameful" the fictionalized Mark Zuckerberg's "monomaniacal pursuit of success which knows no scruple," and adds, The direction itself seems conceived as a critical formalization of the Facebook "community": speed and virtuality of exchanges, aggregation of solitudes, solipsism of points of view, indistinguishability of lies and truth.

Finally, "when we consider how aptly natural and moral evidence link together, and form only one chain of argument, we shall make no scruple to allow, that they are of the same nature, and derived from the same principles" (ECHU 60).

"No scruples, no religion, nothing".

"No, I had no scruples," Reza replies.

"I have no scruples about violence.

Salvador resented his father, saying he had no scruples.

We were stumbling over scruples against a foe with no scruples.