brazen vs scruple

brazen

adj
  • Shamelessly shocking and offensive; audacious; impudent; barefaced; immodest, unblushing. 

  • Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments. 

verb
  • Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc. 

  • To turn a brass color. 

scruple

noun
  • Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience. 

  • A weight of ¹⁄₂₈₈ of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈). 

  • A Hebrew unit of time equal to ¹⁄₁₀₈₀ hour. 

verb
  • To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple. 

  • To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience. 

  • To regard with suspicion; to question. 

How often have the words brazen and scruple occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )