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
She’s twisted and conscienceless, but she is also irrepressible.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2018
This great political monograph is a calm analysis of the various methods whereby an ambitious conscienceless man may rise to sovereign power.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
