Both Uses of
conscientious
in
The House of Mirth
- Mrs. Peniston, who was a conscientious woman, had forwarded them all to Bellomont.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Mrs. Fisher was full of indirect expedients for enabling her friends to earn a living, and could conscientiously assert that she had put several opportunities of this kind before Lily; but more legitimate methods of bread-winning were as much out of her line as they were beyond the capacity of the sufferers she was generally called upon to assist.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(conscientious) careful to do what is right--especially to perform duties in a thorough manner