Example Sentences

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An island is fine enough, in all conscience or piratic unconscientiousness, but an island in a river sounds like the beginning of the greatest adventure story on earth.

From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Think of the impenetrable stupidity, the indolent unconscientiousness, the complacent conceit, and the obstinacy which hardens the hearts towards us of that matron and that maid, and by their hands infuses death into the pot.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

It is in the "therefore" that I detect the unconscientiousness of this bird.

From A Tangled Tale by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)