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guilty conscience

NOUN
  1. remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense

How To Use guilty conscience In A Sentence

  • More like to blot out his guilty conscience. The Sun
  • A guilty conscience never feels secure. 
  • Perhaps unsurprisingly a sizeable proportion of those questioned had guilty consciences to go with their bulging wardrobes. Times, Sunday Times
  • A guilty conscience is apparent to its owner.
  • She owed her father nothing, not even the duty to clear his guilty conscience at the end.
  • It was his guilty conscience that made him offer to help.
  • There is a happy ending, however, as Zigby, pricked by a guilty conscience, builds the friendly ants a new home out of mud.
  • Is this the gift of a guilty conscience? Times, Sunday Times
  • It was his guilty conscience that made him offer to help.
  • It is film-making in bad faith, film-making with a guilty conscience, and no work can gracefully sustain such a weight.
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