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conscience-stricken

/kon-shuhns-strik-uhn/US // ˈkɒn ʃənsˌstrɪk ən //

良心不安,良心不安的,良心不安的人,良心不安地

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : greatly troubled or disturbed by the knowledge of having acted wrongfully.

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Examples

  • Instead, straighten your civic backbone and push back in clear conscience.

  • Better to be a beggar in freedom,” he cried out, “than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

  • Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Oskar Schindler—these names come readily to mind when we think of heroes of conscience.

  • As you put it, “letting some business owners exercise their conscience would cause no harm to gays.”

  • “Nothing in this country of good conscience has ever happened without protest,” he said.

  • Two artillery subalterns who had fought their way through a mob stricken with panic for the moment, soon arrived.

  • She reached forward to it in ecstasy; but she might not enjoy it, save at the price which her conscience exacted.

  • In this way it will be managed with less offense and with more ease to the conscience than now.

  • My conscience importuned me to tell her bluntly that they would only come into Walsh feet first.

  • That he might lose his head and 'introduce an element of sex' was conscience confessing that it had been already introduced.