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US
/ˌkɑnʃiˈɛnʃəs/
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[ UK /kˌɒnsɪˈɛnʃəs/ ]
[ UK /kˌɒnsɪˈɛnʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong
a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice -
characterized by extreme care and great effort
painstaking research
conscientious application to the work at hand
scrupulous attention to details
How To Use conscientious In A Sentence
- Like other conscientious objectors, he was called to a tribunal. Times, Sunday Times
- He fulfilled his duties conscientiously, but his support for the proclamation of the district as a city lost him his seat in 1950.
- Conscientious and conservative judges, both state and federal, should have rebelled against the abortion decision in Roe.
- Moreover it seems to me atrocious that we who insist on seven millions of Catholics supporting a church they call heretical, should dare to talk of our scruples (conscientious scruples forsooth!) about assisting with a poor pittance of very insufficient charity their 'damnable idolatry.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- He registered as a conscientious objector and was summoned appear before the tribunal set up to judge the sincerity of 'conchies'. Between silk and cyanide
- He remained a retiring, modest and conscientious man who shunned publicity. Times, Sunday Times
- She has been a conscientious ambassador for her country all her reign. Times, Sunday Times
- A kind, good natured and most conscientious gentleman, Jimmy was well qualified in his career and always brought the personal touch to his dealings with people.
- The research has also found that today's comedians are less agreeable and less conscientious than average people. Times, Sunday Times
- joinery," mortised, and held by the skill and conscientiousness of its construction. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
