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conscienceless

/kon-shuhns/US // ˈkɒn ʃəns //UK // (ˈkɒnʃəns) //

无意识,无意识的,不自觉,不自觉的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action: to follow the dictates of conscience.
    • : the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual.
    • : an inhibiting sense of what is prudent: I'd eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me.
    • : conscientiousness.
    • : Obsolete. consciousness; self-knowledge.
    • : Obsolete. strict and reverential observance.

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Examples

  • So for that reason alone I never seriously considered it, but I felt pushed in that direction by my conscience while I was researching the book.

  • Amnesty International recognized Victoria Biran a prisoner of conscience, deprived of her liberty solely for peacefully exercising their human rights, and her case is emblematic of thousands of persons in Belarus detained in recent weeks.

  • “But the content of a man’s character or a woman’s character to serve in that capacity is more important than any other issue that I have to consider as a matter of conscience,” he added.

  • Some teams among the bottom half of their league’s seeds — such as the Yankees and Astros — cannot, in good conscience, be considered “Cinderellas.”

  • However, it doesn’t seem to make sense to your pesky conscience.

  • They're not just conscienceless industrial killing machines.

  • There was always “that dreadful Southern vivacity” and the locals with the “conscienceless” eyes.

  • This is so important that I should hold it conscienceless to engage in the profession of criminology without knowing the dialects.

  • So far as decent speech could compass it, I have ever sought to tell her what a conscienceless villain you are.

  • But first of all, with characteristic stealth, the conscienceless half-breed had begun his journey with a comfortable nap.

  • In business relations he is as conscienceless as Tamerlane, who built a mountain of skulls as a monument to himself.

  • It was gall to the conscienceless junior to be thus baldly snubbed.