ease your conscience

Frequency: 6.89.9 per million words

To do something to make yourself feel less guilty.

conscienceVERB + conscience

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ease

Examples (10)

  • He confessed to the crime simply to ease his conscience.
  • She donated to the environmental fund to ease her conscience about flying so often.
  • Will apologizing to him really ease your conscience?
  • Returning the lost wallet did little to ease his guilty conscience.
  • In a desperate attempt to ease his conscience, he tried to justify his actions.
  • You can't just buy expensive gifts to ease your conscience; you need to say you're sorry.
  • The company started a recycling program, partly to ease its corporate conscience.
  • He thought telling a white lie would ease his conscience, but it only made him feel worse.
  • If you want to ease your conscience, you should go back and pay for the item you forgot to scan.
  • After years of silence, the witness finally came forward to ease their conscience.