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Battle of the Bulge, the (oh) and scrupulous (iou)


Battle of the Bulge, the (oh)



the last main attack by the German army during World War II, when they surrounded the Allies' army in Belgium in 1944

scrupulous (iou)



scrupulous adjective. LME.
[Old & mod. French scrupuleux or Latin scrupulosus, from scrupulus: see SCRUPLE noun, -ULOUS.]
Troubled with doubts or questions of conscience; meticulously concerned with matters of morality and propriety; (of a thing, action, etc.), characterized by such doubts or scruples. LME.
A. C. Benson A Religion of scrupulous saints and self-torturing ascetics.
b. Prone to hesitation or doubt; cautious in one's actions, decisions, etc; (of an action etc.) characterized by doubt or distrust. M16-L17.
c. Loth or reluctant, through scruples, to do; doubtful or suspicious of; chary of or in doing. E17-M19.
Of a thing: causing doubt, raising scruples; meriting scruple or objection. M16-L17.
Bacon The Iustice of that Cause ought to be Euident; Not Obscure, not Scrupulous.
Careful to follow the dictates of conscience or propriety, esp. so as to avoid doing wrong. Also foll. by to do. M16.
Ld Macaulay His more scrupulous brother ceased to appear in the royal chapel.
gen. Minutely exact or careful; strictly or overly attentive to details; punctilious. M16.
New Scientist Most authorities are scrupulous in installing first-aid boxes and fire-fighting equipment.
Of an action or quality: rigidly directed by the dictates of conscience; characterized by a punctilious concern for what is right. M18.
P. D. James The kind of marital argument, conducted..with scrupulous fairness, which they both relished.
scrupulously adverb M16.
scrupulousness noun E16.