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conscience-stricken

adjective as in remorseful

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Example Sentences

The brothers, conscience stricken and ashamed, completely humbled and afraid, could not answer his questions.

Suddenly we heard the swish of a dress behind, and turned, conscience-stricken, though we had in nothing sinned.

At this awful sight the conscience-stricken wretch fell flat and tried to work into the soil like a worm.

Mina was puzzled, but did not go so far wrong as to conceive him conscience-stricken.

It is impossible to tell the shame and remorse of the conscience stricken girls.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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