conscience

[ˈkɑːnʃəns]

Definition:
1. The part of your mind that tells you whether your actions are right or wrong.
2. Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions.
3. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct.
4. A feeling of shame when you do something immoral.

Use 'conscience' in a sentence:

1. I can look back on things with a clear conscience. I did everything I could.
2. Her conscience pricked her as she lied to her sister.
3. The matter weighed upon his conscience.
4. Those words scared Peter, for his conscience was not clear.
5. He has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age.
6. It was a misunderstanding and it preyed on his conscience.
7. The conscience of the nation is appeased, while the population continues to puff its way to smoky, cancerous death.
8. I could go away again with a clear conscience.
9. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
10. She behaves as if she has something on her conscience.
11. I would like your advice on a matter of conscience, Father.
12. It's pleasing to see some criminals have a conscience.
13. He refused for reasons of conscience to eat meat.
14. Lying bothers my conscience, so I am always honest with other people.
15. I'll write and apologize. I've had it on my conscience for weeks.
16. As the regressive nature of Mussolini's regime became clear, he began to suffer a crisis of conscience.
17. She could not, in good conscience, back out on her deal with him.
18. Emilia is the voice of conscience in the play.
19. This is an issue of equality, opportunity and national conscience.
20. I had a guilty conscience and could not sleep.
21. This is a matter of individual conscience.
22. Most were sympathetic once we pricked their consciences.
23. They have shown a ruthless lack of conscience.
24. Now the murderer has two deaths on his conscience.
25. What if he got a guilty conscience and brought it back?
26. Conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep.
27. Has your action never given you a twinge of conscience?
28. I have much on my conscience, I want to become white paper!
29. The Daily Mail has the headline 'The Voice of Conscience'
30. I have battled with my conscience over whether I should actually send this letter.
31. We have followed the dictates of our consciences and have done our duty.
32. He won't let it trouble his conscience.
33. He had been unwise and it preyed on his conscience.
34. I have a terrible conscience about it.
35. Everyone, according to the logic of Areopagitica, has the potential to assume the inner authority of conscience and self-discipline.
36. I give myself treats and justify them to salve my conscience.
37. We cannot in all conscience refuse to help.
38. The crime lay heavy on her conscience.
39. She was seized by a sudden pang of conscience.
40. But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age.
41. In all such instance, let conscience be your guide.
42. I'm so glad he had a pang of conscience.
43. He lay awake, scourged by his conscience.
44. These offerings greatly helped to ease Tom's conscience.
45. How can you square this with your conscience?
46. She is that rare bird: a politician with a social conscience.
47. Verdicts should represent the conscience of the community and not just the letter of the law.
48. He refused for reasons of conscience to sign a new law legalising abortion.
49. Lisa struggled with her conscience before talking to the police.
50. The kind advice rests easily on one's conscience.