prick your conscience

Examples (10)

• The memory of his harsh words pricked his conscience for years.
• Doesn't it prick your conscience to know you lied to them?
• That sort of behavior would prick anyone's conscience.
• Ever since the incident, the thought of it has pricked my conscience.
• Ignoring their plea for help pricked his conscience more than he expected.
• If you go through with this, it will prick your conscience later.
• The news report about child labor pricked the nation's conscience.
• To throw away so much food must prick the conscience of the restaurant owner.
• If telling a small lie saves someone's feelings, does it still prick your conscience?
• The sight of the abandoned puppy was enough to prick the conscience of even the most hardened individual.