Usually means: Hesitated due to moral concerns.
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  1. scrupled: Merriam-Webster
  2. scrupled: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scrupled: Vocabulary.com
  4. scrupled: Wordnik
  5. scrupled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scrupled: Wiktionary
  7. scrupled: Dictionary.com
  8. Scrupled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Scrupled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. scrupled: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. scrupled: FreeDictionary.org
  12. scrupled: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scruple)

noun:  Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience.
noun:  (pharmacy) A weight of ¹⁄₂₈₈ of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
noun:  A Hebrew unit of time equal to ¹⁄₁₀₈₀ hour.
noun:  (obsolete, by extension) A very small quantity; a particle.
noun:  (obsolete) A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
verb:  (intransitive) To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.
verb:  (intransitive) To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
verb:  (transitive) To regard with suspicion; to question.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To question the truth of (a fact, etc.); to doubt; to hesitate to believe, to question.
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