Sample Sentences for
conscientious
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    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.  (source)
    conscientious = wanting to be proper
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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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    He went over things carefully and conscientiously in his mind.  (source)
    conscientiously = in a careful manner
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    "You," he says to the conscientious new apprentice at the end of the counter.†  (source)
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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)
    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.
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    No offense to Frank, but after the fiasco at Fort Sumter, Leo had become a conscientious objector to riding giant eagles.†  (source)
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    Lori Andrews, director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, wants something more drastic: she has called for people to get policymakers' attention by becoming "conscientious objectors in the DNA draft" and refusing to give tissue samples.†  (source)
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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)
    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.
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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)
    standard 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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    On the other hand, the dentist seemed more conscientious: he asked me to open my mouth wide.†  (source)
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    The unsuspecting traveler fell into his part as conscientiously as he read his primer.†  (source)
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    Conscientiousness.†  (source)
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