conscience-stricken
Example Sentences
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He would later portray himself as a conscience-stricken and unwilling participant in Hitler’s crimes, and his gamble on the sympathy of the judges at Nuremberg paid off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Most of those who did get out were rescued only by the initiative of conscience-stricken troops and diplomats in Kabul, and by a loose network of tireless volunteers working around-the-clock stateside.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022
It’s to this rigorously intellectual and self-questioning filmmaker’s credit that he doesn’t present these parts of his oeuvre as anything but conscience-stricken stabs at making sense of it all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
In “Please Give,” Keener’s character—a conscience-stricken dealer of mid-century-modern furniture that she buys from children of the recently deceased—leaves a restaurant and offers her leftovers to an elderly African-American man standing outside.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018
She lay on the floor of the cabin, motionless, conscience-stricken, filled with horror.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
