All 6 Uses of
conscientious
in
War and Peace
- He frowned, trying to appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for knowledge.†
Chpt 1
- You understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his wishes; that is my only reason for being here.†
Chpt 1 *
- Dohkturov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother, with an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality.†
Chpt 3
- It goes without saying that one must be conscientious and methodical.†
Chpt 6
- * Vera at the same time smiling with a sense of superiority over her good, conscientious husband, who all the same understood life wrongly, as according to Vera all men did.†
Chpt 6
- Dessalles, the tutor he had brought from Switzerland, was wearing a coat of Russian cut and talking broken Russian to the servants, but was still the same narrowly intelligent, conscientious, and pedantic preceptor.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(conscientious) careful to do what is right--especially to perform duties in a thorough manner