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
For the moment, the climbing club is hoping that whoever stole the money will suffer from "a guilty conscience", and quietly return it.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
Anyone could see she had a guilty conscience.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
