All 7 Uses of
conscience
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- He was highly sociable and spirited, slight and dark-faced, narrow-eyed, witty-looking, largely willing to be honest but not overstrapped by conscience—the old lady was right about that.†
Chpt 3conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- If I had felt this as such a matter of conscience I might have been out in front of Republic Steel at the hour of the Decoration Day Massacre, as Grammick was.†
Chpt 14
- But hadn't she also tried to carry me to the ground and crush me with the attack she made on me, saying how vain I was, how unreliable, how I was always looking at other women and had no conscience?†
Chpt 19
- Stalin is out to get him because he's the conscience of the revolutionary world.†
Chpt 20
- He went on giving me assignments and I collected my thirty bucks with a free conscience, but he didn't do any work.†
Chpt 21 *
- However, my conscience had already decided.†
Chpt 23
- How life goes beyond the conscience of nice well-reared people.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior