in conscience

1. Also, in all good conscience. In all truth or fairness, as in I can't in conscience say that the meeting went well, or In all good conscience we can't support their stand on disarmament. [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

The force said the policeman was on mobile patrol in Conscience Lane, travelling from Rowde towards Devizes, at about 11:30 BST when he spotted the vehicle and tried to speak to those inside.

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“In each of these cases, Donald Trump is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years. And that’s why I cannot in conscience endorse Donald Trump in this campaign,” he said.

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Rather, he reported, one of the two friends who masterminded the slaughter was a psychopath, lacking in conscience and empathy but abundant in grandiose ideas, and the other was a suicidal depressive who went along with the plan.

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The White House has described Biden’s decision as one rooted in conscience that reflects a central theme of his presidency — that the world is seeing a broad clash between democracies and autocracies, and that it is important to take the side of democracies.

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“Guards and would-be social workers could not coexist in the same institution,” David Rothman wrote in Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America.

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