bad conscience
Example Sentences
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Speaking of bad conscience, all of that happened five years ago this summer, after the killing of George Floyd.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025
But as she wends through a giddy but uneasy Paris between the two world wars, our Tamara has the dramatic benefit of a bad conscience.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2018
Prisons are the bad conscience of the liberal imagination, a truth that tends to be most obvious to their most interested observers.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 22, 2016
But allowing oneself to spread out on a hammock and entirely forget about work, without feelings of self-contempt and a bad conscience, may go some way to saving the holiday.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2015
Now I was tempted to tell my father that Jack Rose was probably using his money to salve a bad conscience.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
