cut-and-dried vs scrupulous

cut-and-dried

scrupulous

adj

  • Having scruples or compunctions. 

  • Wrongly feeling guilt or anxiety about one’s morality; suffering from scrupulosity. 

  • Precise; exact or strict. 

  • Exactly and carefully conducted. 

How often have the words cut-and-dried and scrupulous occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )