bad conscience
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We could call that bad conscience, but why be judgmental?
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025
Richard Nixon, a genuinely Shakespearean villain, had full knowledge of his wrongdoing and a bad conscience about it, if not enough of one.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019
I wonder if the author has a bad conscience over whatever it was he was doing there for "us?"
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2017
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
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