scrupulously
/ˈskruːpjʊləsli
/adverb
1In a very careful and thorough way: a scrupulously researched biography scrupulously maintained images...
- Ritual had to be scrupulously observed—the lighting, the arrangement of the speakers, the comfy chair.
- He has a habit of leaving coins in his pants that the maid scrupulously preserves in a bleach cup.
- His recognition that her novels scrupulously avoid retrospect captures something fundamental about her departure from 18th-century narrative.
1.1With great effort to avoid doing wrong: the policies must be scrupulously observed [as submodifier]: she is scrupulously fair to all students...
- The Dad I grew up with was a scrupulously honest man with a work ethic that now seems rare.
- It is vital that our audiences can rely on coverage of events which is scrupulously impartial, fair, accurate, balanced, and independent.
- With his wife, he had co-authored four scrupulously principled books on New England wilderness.