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Definition
feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- More and more tormented, East entered a battle with his conscience, his sense of decency.
- At night he began to have trouble sleeping, to feel he was prostituting his conscience and his editorial responsibilities.
- Their appeals are to regional interest, showing complete contempt for privacy of conscience, and a willingness to destroy and subvert values that have traditionally been held supreme in this land.
- I'd do that as a matter of conscience anyway," I said.
There are no more uses of "conscience" in Black Like Me.
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