noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
guilty conscience
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It was his guilty conscience that made him offer to help.
prisoner of conscience
social conscience
square sth with your conscience (= make yourself believe that what you are doing is morally right )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clear
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Now they could dance with a clear conscience .
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He feigned a teasing laugh, a clear conscience .
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And who has a clear conscience ?
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Sophie and the child will be taken care of, and because of that I can live with a clear conscience .
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Meeting ethical criteria leads not only to a relatively clear research conscience but to better research.
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Maybe not even cynical, maybe just female practicality which can stoop with clearest conscience below the level of the lowest stratagem.
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But at any rate I can finally dust my hands and put my jacket on with a clear conscience .
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Lawn owners have good reason for keeping clear consciences and generally living each day as through it were their last.
collective
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And journalism, which is more prone to collective examination of conscience than most professions, is already focusing on these problems.
good
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It's good for your conscience to demonstrate - just so long as no one asks you to do anything about it.
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I have a hard time separating one statement resulting from torture from another and I can not in good conscience do so.
guilty
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Obviously he behaved in a highly suspicious manner today, but a guilty conscience can inspire one to do strange things.
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Rob said. --- Thisis a guilty conscience .
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A guilty conscience is apparent to its owner.
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Capitalism, in the United States, has often had a guilty conscience .
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Neil had a guilty conscience and Jessica had known it.
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She owed her father nothing, not even the duty to clear his guilty conscience at the end.
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Failure was an abdication of personal responsibility, a cause of a guilty conscience .
human
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Moreover those units will relentlessly force themselves into the human conscience as being of a wholly desirable nature, that is, good.
individual
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So how can protecting the environment be left to individual conscience ?
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Extension of the individual freedom of conscience decisions to business corporations strains the rationale of these cases to the breaking point.
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The decision is a matter for the individual conscience .
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Fenner Brockway paid tribute to the understanding and respect for individual conscience shown by the state.
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But the two characters are no mere mouthpieces for the state and the individual conscience .
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I urged them to listen to the voice of their individual conscience .
social
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Today we expect our stars to have social consciences and wide-ranging opinions.
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His social conscience , dulled by a sleepless night, was now barely alive.
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Answer: the growth of social conscience in the general mass of people.
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He was developing an acute social and political conscience , and I could see him devoting his life to the Labour Party.
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Those who wish to air their social consciences will support Samuel.
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The government's social conscience inevitably raises questions about the balance between growth and welfare.
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But whatever the motive, international business is at least waking up to the fact that a social conscience can be good for business.
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Above all, Seymour sees the monster as an embodiment of Mary's social conscience .
■ VERB
ease
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I try to ease my conscience as a woman.
salve
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The international community has so far salved its conscience by voicing a succession of pious hopes.
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We are there to salve their conscience and to administer their guilt money.
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Perhaps, he thought, it helps to salve her own conscience .
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But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something, and she had not been for two weeks now.
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But do not let us allow their punishment to salve our consciences .
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It was to salve her conscience , she thought, and make up for her obsessional preoccupation with Nick Frazer.
trouble
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I have discharged my duty, she thought, I can not be troubled by my conscience in that respect.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clear conscience
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Finley said that he had a clear conscience and that the charges were unfounded.
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Let them say whatever they like. I have a clear conscience.
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Smith says he has a clear conscience about what happened.
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You can face Lionel with a clear conscience -- you've done nothing to harm him.
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A Clear Conscience A close companion to a forgiving spirit is a clear conscience.
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And who has a clear conscience?
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But at any rate I can finally dust my hands and put my jacket on with a clear conscience.
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He feigned a teasing laugh, a clear conscience.
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My understanding of shareware is that it can be freely distributed but requires registration by the user for a clear conscience.
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Now they could dance with a clear conscience.
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Sophie and the child will be taken care of, and because of that I can live with a clear conscience.
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They could claim, with a clear conscience, that their feet had never left Ross-shire soil.
crisis of conscience
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A comparison of the two will throw light on the crisis of conscience on both occasions.
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Hereford might just have a crisis of conscience tomorrow.
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It struck me that the practice of Thaipusam should not seem that mystifying for anyone who endures a crisis of conscience.
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The crisis of conscience and duty would be too painful.
prick of conscience
prick sb's conscience
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Gordimer's novels pricked the conscience of white South Africans.
salve your conscience
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Don't think you can salve your consciences by giving us money. We won't forgive you that easily.
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She felt guilty and tried to salve her conscience by inviting him out for a meal.
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But do not let us allow their punishment to salve our consciences.
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But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something, and she had not been for two weeks now.
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It was to salve her conscience, she thought, and make up for her obsessional preoccupation with Nick Frazer.
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The international community has so far salved its conscience by voicing a succession of pious hopes.
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We are there to salve their conscience and to administer their guilt money.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was a man of strong social conscience , who actively campaigned against poverty in all its forms.
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He was capable of making the most ruthless decisions with no apparent pangs of conscience .
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Her conscience would not let her take all the credit for their work.
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Her murderer was a psychopath with a total lack of conscience .
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I have to do what my conscience tells me.
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It was a guilty conscience that made him admit stealing the money.
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Marie got up especially early to do all her work so that she could enjoy herself afterwards with a clear conscience .
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Parker displayed a remarkable lack of conscience about what he had done.
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She hurried home, conscience - stricken about having left all the dishes for Natalie to do.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As adults we have active consciences which help us do the right thing.
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Great issues of conscience are thrashed out in impassioned, eloquent language.
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His conscience warred with the whispered promises of the semi-sentient sword.
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However the appointment of staff to fill the new posts meant that our overall complement was little changed and consciences were salved.
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Later Protestantism favoured liberty of conscience .
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They acted out of a conscience that patriots despised but at least could understand.
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They affected him not only as a man of conscience but as a politician.
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What we gain from this is obvious: our own consciences are clear, and we're no longer implicated.