Boggle Word Finder
SCRUPLES
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TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
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Classic
11
pts
Big
11
pts
Super Big
11
pts
SCRUPLES is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.
SCRUPLES root SCRUPLE-s
Word family
noun
- Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm.
- A weight of ¹⁄₂₈₈ of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
- A Hebrew unit of time equal to ¹⁄₁₀₈₀ hour.
- broadlyobsoleteA very small quantity; a particle.
- obsoleteA doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
verb
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intransitiveTo hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.
- They wouldn't scruple to cheat us if given the opportunity.
- intransitiveTo excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
- transitiveTo regard with suspicion; to question.
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intransitiveobsoleteTo question the truth of (a fact, etc.); to doubt; to hesitate to believe, to question.
- I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.