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.