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Synonyms for conscience-stricken


Grammar : Adj
Spell : kon-shuh ns-strik-uh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒn ʃənsˌstrɪk ən



Définition of conscience-stricken

  • adj remorseful
Example sentences :
  • She was now in a moment so conscience-stricken that her very basket partook of the change.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • He must have been conscience-stricken and more to be pitied, perhaps, than condemned.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Caroline, he was the most distressed and conscience-stricken man in the city.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • He was conscience-stricken and fully as miserable as she professed to be.
  • Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • But Clemens, conscience-stricken, "blushed and weakened," as he said.
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • "I had almost forgotten him," he cried in a conscience-stricken tone.
  • Extract from : « The Point Of Honor » by Joseph Conrad
  • Mina was puzzled, but did not go so far wrong as to conceive him conscience-stricken.
  • Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope
  • Is a fox-hound not conscience-stricken for his harry of the sheep-fold?
  • Extract from : « The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper » by Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • She did not seem in the least conscience-stricken; she said: “Thank goodness, at last!”
  • Extract from : « The Way of All Flesh » by Samuel Butler
  • Hugh was not in the least conscience-stricken at her evident lack of composure.
  • Extract from : « In the Mist of the Mountains » by Ethel Turner

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