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conscientious

adj. guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice"

principled

adj. (scrupulous)

meticulous, painstaking, scrupulous

adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"

dutiful, duteous, respectful

adj. willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife";

meticulous, painstaking, finical, finicky, fussy, pernickety, persnickety, punctilious

adj. excessively concerned about niceties

nice, meticulous, punctilious

adj. marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"

fastidious

adj. giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"

cautious, careful

adj. showing careful forethought; "reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver"

prudent

adj. careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment; "a prudent manager"; "prudent rulers"; "prudent hesitation"; "more prudent to hide than to fight"

particular, choosy, choosey

adj. difficult to please

exacting

adj. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"

trustworthy, trusty

adj. worthy of trust or belief; "a trustworthy report"; "an experienced and trustworthy traveling companion"

sincere

adj. open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship"

upright, good, virtuous, just

adj. of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"

veracious

adj. precisely accurate; "a veracious account"

credible, believable

adj. capable of being believed; "completely credible testimony"; "credible information"

exact, accurate, precise

adj. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"

true, trustworthy

adj. "I would be true for there are those who trust me"

true

adj. consistent with fact or reality; not false; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement"

true

adj. devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth; "true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them"

politic

adj. marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and politic reply"

honorable, honourable

adj. worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"

great, distinguished, eminent

adj. (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation; "our distinguished professor"; "an eminent scholar"; "a great statesman"

illustrious

adj. having or conferring glory; "an illustrious achievement"

reliable, dependable

adj. worthy of reliance or trust; "a reliable source of information"; "a dependable worker"

religious

adj. extremely scrupulous and conscientious; "religious in observing the rules of health"

assiduous, studious

adj. marked by care and effort; "made a studious attempt to fix the television set"

solicitous, careful of, protective of

adj. "careful of her feelings"; "extremely solicitous in matters of behavior"

certain, sure

adj. exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance; "be certain to disconnect the iron when you are through"; "be sure to lock the doors"

close

adj. rigorously attentive; strict and thorough; "close supervision"; "paid close attention"; "a close study"; "kept a close watch on expenditures"

elaborate, detailed, elaborated

adj. developed or executed with care and in minute detail; "a detailed plan"; "the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"- John Buchan; "the carefully elaborated theme"

minute, narrow

adj. characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report"

overcareful, too careful

adj. excessively or unduly careful

thorough, thoroughgoing

adj. painstakingly careful and accurate; "our accountant is thorough"; "thorough research"

unconscientious

adj. not conscientious; not guided by a sense of right and wrong

careless

adj. marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful; "careless about her clothes"; "forgotten by some careless person"; "a careless housekeeper"; "careless proofreading"; "it was a careless mistake"; "hurt by a careless remark"

negligent

adj. characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern; "negligent parents"; "negligent of detail"; "negligent in his correspondence"

slack, loose, careless, lax

adj. lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline"

haphazard, hit-or-miss, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy

adj. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

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