conscience
noun
the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action.
conscienceless
-
a word derived from
conscience.
Example Sentences
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In the media, Blake’s lawyers skillfully demonized Bakley as a “star stalker” and a conscienceless scam artist who had fleeced men all over the country and made countless enemies, many of them possible killers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
It's hard to imagine how a man who started out as a Jewish refugee from the Nazis could be as conscienceless as Kissinger was about the slaughter in East Pakistan.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2023
Amid this, we follow many lives, including two brothers looking for work, a showgirl, a villainous spy, a conscienceless fat cat and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, labor organizer, feminist and, later, a founder of the ACLU.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2021
But they’re nothing compared to the strangers themselves, who, even though we never see their faces, read as viciously conscienceless young adults.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2018
It was that conscienceless, ambitious, treacherous Stoutenburg! at most her brother was blindly acquiescent in this infamy.
From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
