conscientious
adjective
governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled.
conscientiously
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a word derived from
conscientious.
Example Sentences
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Pistorius insisted that the government will handle the massive investments "carefully and conscientiously".
From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025
"If we're going to really use AI properly, we have to set guardrails around how we use it conscientiously," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025
The “Y Tu Mamá También” and “Andor” actor has long understood his role as an artist to be rooted in conscientiously mirroring the world around him and the many colorful characters that inhabit it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024
Over time, Dayton toned down the rhetoric; rather than polemicizing about blood-stained roads, he encouraged other scientists to “carefully and conscientiously amass the facts and findings.”
From Slate ● May 25, 2024
But beneath that soft gentleness there was something stubborn in her, and no matter how conscientiously he studied it all out, he could not understand the gentle stubbornness in his wife.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
