All 4 Uses of
conscientious
in
Washington Square
- Mrs. Montgomery resumed her meditations, and her visitor, who was prepared to give time to the affair, asked himself whether, in spite of her little conscientious air, she was not playing into her brother's hands.†
Chpt 14
- He was perhaps right, after all, to think as he did; by which Catherine meant not in the least that his judgement of Morris's motives in seeking to marry her was perhaps a just one, but that it was probably natural and proper that conscientious parents should be suspicious and even unjust.†
Chpt 15
- It gratified Mrs. Penniman to be able to feel conscientiously that this scene virtually removed the interdict which Catherine had placed upon her further communion with Morris Townsend.†
Chpt 19 *
- Of course you have done it conscientiously; you have made yourself believe that I can be tired out.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(conscientious) careful to do what is right--especially to perform duties in a thorough manner