Sample sentences for CONSCIENTIOUS

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Definition

careful to do what is right—especially to perform duties in a thorough manner (as when guided by conscience)

conscientious = careful and thorough

conscientious = careful to do what is right

Gatsby got himself into a shadow and, while Daisy and I talked, looked conscientiously from one to the other of us with tense, unhappy eyes.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

conscientiously = with a desire to do what was right

He went over things carefully and conscientiously in his mind.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

conscientiously = in a careful manner

I cannot keep count of them, though I have tried conscientiously.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper

conscientiously = with care

Slowly and conscientiously he ate all of the wedge-shaped strips of fish.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea

conscientiously = with care

Some of the faculty are pretty conscientious.
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

conscientious = characterized by extreme care and great effort

She added quickly, conscientiously determined to make her position clear at once, "I haven't even seen my employer yet."
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

conscientiously = in a manner that is careful to do what is right

I took dinner usually at the Yale Club — for some reason it was the gloomiest event of my day — and then I went up-stairs to the library and studied investments and securities for a conscientious hour.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

conscientious = careful performance of duties

The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise — she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression — then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

conscientious = wanting to be proper

And Clyde, feeling how strange it was that the Reverend McMillan could not conscientiously bring himself to do more than that for him.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
That he was a good man" An honest, conscientious man?
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
Conscientiously, Iona sprinkled flour over the next layer of sliced potatoes.
Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
She seemed like such a conscientious sort....
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
It broke her heart to see her mother trying so hard, being so conscientious, so determined to be valuable.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
The prosecutor was Jim Rowland from third battalion, an extraordinarily bright and conscientious cadet who had been accepted at Harvard Law School.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
You're so conscientious,' he said, his voice muffled by my sweater, which he was still trying to ease off.
Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
It wasn't his fault that an accident now made the deal possible and not his own conscientious efforts.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
He wrote conscientiously each item of his distinctions; his name found its way back more than once to the indulgent Altamont papers.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
I am not sure that as a conscientious detective my first duty is not to arrest the whole household.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles

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