She was meticulous, demanding, thorough and scrupulous. She discerns, however, an ominous change in his demeanour, masked by his scrupulous, punctilious behaviour. He is generally seen as a scrupulous historian who paid careful attention to his sources. An overly scrupulous conscience is an exaggeration of healthy guilt. A more sympathetic, contemporaneous, account described Carne's efforts as "careful and scrupulous". He practiced his business at Cremona with scrupulous honesty. Gruen's conclusion is that Goodman is committed to "thorough and scrupulous" scholarship. Plutarch regards him as "the least scrupulous and most entirely careless of human beings". He gained a reputation as a scrupulous and honest "tax-farmer". Where Crichton strove for scrupulous realism, however, Cussler prefers fantastic spectacles and outlandish plot devices. The most scrupulous examination by graphologists testifies in favour of authenticity. Meissonier worked with elaborate care and a scrupulous observation of nature. When are you to be wrought to the point of a denunciation, scrupulous brother? For him, empiricism meant a rejection of philosophy in favor of scrupulous observations. But before that, many Britons were more scrupulous at maintaining the French form.