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conscientious
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  • Slowly and conscientiously he ate all of the wedge-shaped strips of fish.  (source)
    conscientiously = with care
  • 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.  (source)
    conscientious = careful performance of duties
  • He went over things carefully and conscientiously in his mind.  (source)
    conscientiously = in a careful manner
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  • That's very conscientious of you, she says.†  (source)
    conscientious = careful to do what is right
  • I cannot keep count of them, though I have tried conscientiously.  (source)
    conscientiously = with care
  • The man, grieved by his own conscientiousness, rummaged in his leather bag and seized forth an iron contraption.†  (source)
    conscientiousness = the state of being careful to do what is right
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • During the Vietnam War, he was a conscientious objector, and there is still something of the '60s hippie about him, like the Mao cap he sometimes wears over his braided yarmulke.†  (source)
    conscientious objector = someone who objects to fulfilling a requirement because they think it is wrong--typically to serve in the military
  • "My brothers went in as conscientious objectors," Harlon's girlfriend, Catherine Pierce, recalls.†  (source)
    conscientious objectors = people who object to fulfilling a requirement because they think it is wrong--typically to serve in the military
  • And there must be a plentiful lack of oxygen in very many houses in this town, I should think, judging from the fact that the whole compact majority can be unconscientious enough to wish to build the town's prosperity on a quagmire of falsehood and deceit.†  (source)
    unconscientious = not careful to do what is right
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscientious means not and reverses the meaning of conscientious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • To her overworked and exasperated teachers she was an overconscientious "slow learner" who kept trying to catch up and was absent entirely too often.†  (source)
    overconscientious = excessively careful to do what is right
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overconscientious means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
  • "You," he says to the conscientious new apprentice at the end of the counter.†  (source)
    conscientious = careful to do what is right
  • The unsuspecting traveler fell into his part as conscientiously as he read his primer.†  (source)
    conscientiously = in a manner that is careful to do what is right
  • D'Artagnan did reflect, and resolved to thrash Planchet provisionally; which he did with the conscientiousness that d'Artagnan carried into everything.†  (source)
    conscientiousness = the state of being careful to do what is right
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