assuage your conscience

Examples (10)

• We assuaged our conscience by telling ourselves that they would be worse off without us.
• He tried to assuage his conscience by donating a large sum of money to charity.
• She hoped a sincere apology would assuage her guilty conscience.
• I need to find a way to assuage my conscience after what I did.
• Can material possessions truly assuage one's conscience?
• No amount of good deeds could assuage his troubled conscience.
• The politician made a public donation, perhaps hoping to assuage his conscience.
• To assuage her conscience about forgetting her friend's birthday, she sent an extravagant gift.
• He confessed everything to the police, finally assuaging his conscience after years of silence.
• The company implemented stricter environmental policies to assuage its corporate conscience.