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Definition
feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- Is this about clearing your conscience?
- I had used nearly all my savings last year on the hybrid—to be honest, I didn't understand why car manufacturers charged a premium if you were a buyer with a modicum of social conscience.
- I was the splinter they couldn't get rid of, the thorn in their side, their conscience.
- Because it rubs your conscience the wrong way to give sympathy to a murderer?
- Buddhists and Hindus believe organ donation is a matter of individual conscience, and they put high value on acts of compassion.
There are no more uses of "conscience" in Change of Heart by Picoult.
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