appease your conscience

Examples (10)

• He bought her flowers in an attempt to appease his conscience for forgetting their anniversary.
• The corporation made a large donation to appease its corporate conscience regarding its environmental impact.
• She volunteers at the homeless shelter to appease her conscience about living a comfortable life.
• Will a simple apology be enough to appease your guilty conscience?
• Many people give to charity simply to appease their conscience, rather than out of genuine altruism.
• I confessed everything, but even that didn't appease my troubled conscience.
• You can't just ignore what you did; you must take real action to appease your conscience.
• He tried to appease his conscience by anonymously returning the money he had found.
• The leader's speech was a calculated effort to appease the national conscience after the scandal.
• After eating the entire pint of ice cream, I went for a long run to appease my conscience.