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• a  having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled
  less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance
• s  characterized by extreme care and great effort
  scrupulous attention to details

• Marjorie Bowen recounts ''with scrupulous exactitude" Sophie Dawes's strange and fascinating story in a volume that for originality and vigor makes most contemporary biographies look insipid.
• A scrupulous researcher of truth should not be unfairly classified as a debunker.
• A few days before the debate, I spent a day with Obama in Iowa, and the most striking thing to me about the Senator's performances was the scrupulous honesty of his answers.

• conscientious
• painstaking

• unscrupulous

News & Articles

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• Chris Bosh Puts Miami Home Up for Sale, Insists He Plans to Retire With Heat
  Get ready for the storm. As scrupulous eyes steady on every Miami Heat gesture, the suspicious presumptions will increase to greater degree. So when something such as the sale of Chris Bosh ’s house (*deep breaths) occurs, it sends ripples that one-third of the Heat’s Big Three could potentially be on the move. Ira Winderman of the Sun Sentinel reports, “Chris Bosh has decided to put his 12,368 ...
  June 13, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• Alan Greenspan in Wall Street Journal
  In an interview yesterday, Mr. Greenspan said, "I have been scrupulous not to respond to any questions which refer directly to monetary policy, what the Fed is doing, or what it should do."
• Henry Waxman in Forbes
  It is hard to reconcile this development with the State Department's claim that, 'We are scrupulous in terms of oversight and scrutiny not only of Blackwater but all of our contractors,'Waxman wrote Rice.
• David Miliband in guardian.co.uk
  Such claims were "a slur both on myself and the government", Miliband told Radio 4's Today programme. "We have been scrupulous in saying this decision should be made by the Scottish authorities; we have been scrupulous in saying that to the...