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synonyms for conscience stricken

  • apologetic
  • bashful
  • contrite
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • embarrassed
  • guilty
  • hesitant
  • humble
  • humbled
  • humiliated
  • regretful
  • reluctant
  • repentant
  • shy
  • sorry
  • abashed
  • blushing
  • chagrined
  • compunctious
  • conscience-stricken
  • crestfallen
  • debased
  • demeaned
  • discomfited
  • disconcerted
  • flustered
  • meek
  • mortified
  • muddled
  • penitent
  • shamed
  • shamefaced
  • sheepish
  • stammering
  • stuttering
  • submissive
  • repentant
  • abject
  • apologetic
  • atoning
  • attritional
  • compunctious
  • conscience-stricken
  • contrite
  • penitential
  • regretful
  • remorseful
  • rueful
  • sorry
On this page you'll find 235 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to conscience stricken, such as: apologetic, bashful, contrite, distraught, distressed, and embarrassed.

antonyms for conscience stricken

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  • calm
  • glad
  • happy
  • joyful
  • unrepentant
  • bold
  • defiant
  • immodest
  • shameless
  • unself-conscious
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        How to use conscience stricken in a sentence

        The brothers, conscience stricken and ashamed, completely humbled and afraid, could not answer his questions.
        BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IIJOHN LORD
        Suddenly we heard the swish of a dress behind, and turned, conscience-stricken, though we had in nothing sinned.
        PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLANDKATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
        At this awful sight the conscience-stricken wretch fell flat and tried to work into the soil like a worm.
        IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READE
        Mina was puzzled, but did not go so far wrong as to conceive him conscience-stricken.
        TRISTRAM OF BLENTANTHONY HOPE
        It is impossible to tell the shame and remorse of the conscience stricken girls.
        CHOICE READINGS FOR THE HOME CIRCLEANONYMOUS
        Conscience-stricken and appalled, the worldly man sank down on a seat beside the bed, and covered his face with his hands.
        NIGHT AND MORNING, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
        Did you think the mother and I didn't notice your conscience-stricken little face, and know just how troubled you were?
        HARPER'S ROUND TABLE, JUNE 4, 1895VARIOUS
        When he returned he found the prisoner leaning, apparently conscience-stricken, over the corpse.
        MARK HURDLESTONESUSANNA MOODIE
        Elsie went upstairs feeling a little conscience-stricken, and with an uneasy idea that she had said more than she should have.
        CAP'N ERIJOSEPH CROSBY LINCOLN
        Conscience-stricken Flame fled before him with her elbow crooked across her forehead.
        PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD-WILL TO DOGSELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT
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        OCTOBER 26, 1985
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