Scrupulous

What it looks like

• Credits every person whose work or idea they used, including the junior ones.
• Declares a small conflict or returns a small overpayment that nobody would have noticed.
• Keeps records that anyone could check, down to the last receipt.

Fits when someone takes exacting care to do what conscience and fairness require

Not when the care is only about detail, neatness, or technical precision

How to say it

Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.

• Documented [expenses, sources or conflicts of interest] for [budget or project] of [size] in full, passing [number] [audits or reviews] with no findings.

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• [Name] is scrupulous: on [project], they credited every contributor, declared [a minor conflict], and kept records that [the auditors or the client] could check line by line.

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• [Name] is scrupulously fair when keeping score, and counts their own points as carefully as everyone else's.

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• The expense form allowed a round figure for lunch. She stapled the receipt for eleven dollars and forty cents to it and claimed exactly that.

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