guilty conscience
Example Sentences
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In his letter, the tourist with the guilty conscience described how he wanted to make peace with himself as he came towards the end of his life.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025
“Sometimes you just have to shame people and hope that they have a guilty conscience for stealing from children, because that’s exactly what this is,” said El Segundo Little League President Jamin Griffiths.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023
The original guilty verdict rested primarily on the apparent unlikelihood of four children in one family dying naturally and ambiguous writing in Folbigg’s diary that the prosecution suggested betrayed a guilty conscience.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 6, 2023
Overshown ably portrays one private’s guilty conscience, and Childs imbues another with palpable grief.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2022
“He just wants to save his own skin. That’s why he’s helping us! He doesn’t have a guilty conscience, oh no. Why should he?”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
