trouble your conscience

Frequency: 6.16.2 per million words

To make you feel guilty.

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Examples (10)

  • Does it trouble your conscience to lie to your parents?
  • The memory of what he did continued to trouble his conscience.
  • If you accept that bribe, it will trouble your conscience forever.
  • She was afraid that ignoring the problem would trouble her conscience later on.
  • He insisted that selling the faulty car didn't trouble his conscience one bit.
  • Knowing she had cheated on the exam began to trouble her conscience.
  • Don't do anything that will eventually trouble your conscience.
  • The injustice of the situation has troubled the nation's conscience for decades.
  • It's the small, unresolved issues that often trouble one's conscience the most.
  • I must confess, as my actions have started to trouble my conscience.