scrupulous
He was scrupulously honest, and always kept his word.
What it did mean was that they were scrupulously fair about everything.
Officials have remained scrupulously neutral in public.
He was scrupulously polite and endlessly patient.
All parties, from the foreign editor down, behaved scrupulously.
Investigators scrupulously recorded the time their "conversations" began
He's a scholar through and through, scrupulously accurate and restrained.
A database of detailed medical records for each patient must be created and scrupulously kept up to the minute.
He'd planned the attack scrupulously.

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Examples of scrupulously

scrupulously
It ruthlessly obliterates the distinction between military and civilian personnel, which had previously been scrupulously and chivalrously preserved.
In fact, the text is scrupulously transcribed and the spelling is unchanged, with the exception of abbreviations which have been expanded.
Institutions should document falls incidents scrupulously completing all the information about the timing and circumstances and consequences of the fall.
This error is scrupulously avoided throughout the book, facilitating congruent readings by students and investigators who may not share the same theoretical perspective.
Her book, while conveying a vivid impression of the depth of feeling on both sides of the debate, is also scrupulously impartial.
Tranquilizing medications should be scrupulously avoided inasmuch as they can further impair the central integration of sensory information.
Overall, this is a thorough examination of many important issues of operatic production, well organized, superbly written and scrupulously documented.
In all cases, the original sources have been scrupulously re-mastered to the highest standards and often furnished with new booklet notes.
They both propose the creation of a hermetic environment that not only provides thermal comfort in any climate, but also scrupulously filters the air.
As doctors and researchers, we must be scrupulously careful not to act out of self-interest in this setting.
Scrupulously equitable distribution of commodities and stiff inheritance taxes would minimize social inequalities.
Policies themselves may even be discriminatory even if they are applied in scrupulously neutral ways.
The value of such artefacts tends to be scrupulously justified.
First, care providers must attend scrupulously to the patient's nutrition, hydration, and sleep.
The later controversies, especially about papal jurisdiction, which have distorted historical questions in many past studies, are scrupulously set aside.
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