conscientiousin a sentence
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She is conscientious in the lab.conscientious = careful and thorough
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I try to hire employees who are conscientious.conscientious = careful to do what is right
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Some of the faculty are pretty conscientious. (source)conscientious = characterized by extreme care and great effort
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Slowly and conscientiously he ate all of the wedge-shaped strips of fish. (source)conscientiously = with care
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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
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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
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I cannot keep count of them, though I have tried conscientiously. (source)conscientiously = with care
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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 rightstandard 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.
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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
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"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
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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 rightstandard 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.
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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 rightstandard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overconscientious means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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"You," he says to the conscientious new apprentice at the end of the counter.† (source)conscientious = careful to do what is right
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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
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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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