guilty conscience
Example Sentences
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Lestat’s figment doubles as his love’s guilty conscience and a glamorized memory.
From Salon • May 26, 2024
Beer says this is "evidence of his own guilty conscience".
From BBC • May 3, 2024
“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
“So you got a guilty conscience and came back,” said Teece.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
