scrupled

verb
  1. 1

    To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.

  2. 2

    To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

  3. 3

    To regard with suspicion; to question.

  4. 4

    To question the truth of (a fact, etc.); to doubt; to hesitate to believe, to question.

    โ€œI do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.โ€

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