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How to pronounce conscience in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong
Type of ethics, morality, morals, ethical motive
Has types wee small voice, sense of duty, sense of shame, small voice, superego, voice of conscience
Type Words
Type of shame
Derivation conscientious


he has no conscience about his cruelty.
Type Words
Type of morality
Has types conscientiousness, unconscientiousness
Derivation conscientious


a person of unflagging conscience.

Examples of conscience

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Gosling, too, is completely convincing as a man without a conscience or a heart.
From the omaha.com
As a father, his daughter's scandalous affairs pricked his conscience and pride.
From the kansas.com
Inaction tears at our conscience and can lead to more costly intervention later.
From the post-gazette.com
Now green superyachters can find a place to rest their heads in good conscience.
From the newsweek.com
Do you have a social conscience, or have you had trouble reading Redbook lately?
From the dispatch.com
Not that there isn't plenty more here to disgust any observer with a conscience.
From the kentucky.com
As much as you'd like to write off the Wolverines, you can't in good conscience.
From the jsonline.com
If you don't like it, take it up with your Congress member, and your conscience.
From the thenewstribune.com
If he has any conscience at all, the decision to leave Cleveland will haunt him.
From the bostonherald.com
More examples
  • Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
  • Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; "a person of unflagging conscience"
  • A feeling of shame when you do something immoral; "he has no conscience about his cruelty"
  • Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition, or judgment of the intellect that distinguishes right from wrong. Moral evaluations of this type may reference values or norms (principles and rules). ...
  • Conscience is a 1993 album from British Pop band The Beloved. The album reached #2 on the UK Albums Chart on its release, and includes "Sweet Harmony", the first single taken from it, being the first single from the band which entered the UK Top Ten, peaking at Number 8. ...
  • Conscience is the fourth album by Womack & Womack, released in 1988, containing the hit single "Teardrops".
  • The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour; inwit; A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices; Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self- ...
  • The faculty of the human subject which enforces the moral law in a particular way for each individual by providing an awareness of what is right and wrong in each situation.
  • To dream that your conscience censures you for deceiving some one, denotes that you will be tempted to commit wrong and should be constantly on your guard. To dream of having a quiet conscience, denotes that you will stand in high repute.