Synonyms for conscience-stricken

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kon-shuh ns-strik-uh n

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒn ʃənsˌstrɪk ən

Définition of conscience-stricken

adj remorseful

Example sentences :

She was now in a moment so conscience-stricken that her very basket partook of the change.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

He must have been conscience-stricken and more to be pitied, perhaps, than condemned.
Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Caroline, he was the most distressed and conscience-stricken man in the city.
Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln

He was conscience-stricken and fully as miserable as she professed to be.
Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

But Clemens, conscience-stricken, "blushed and weakened," as he said.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

"I had almost forgotten him," he cried in a conscience-stricken tone.
Extract from : « The Point Of Honor » by Joseph Conrad

Mina was puzzled, but did not go so far wrong as to conceive him conscience-stricken.
Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope

Is a fox-hound not conscience-stricken for his harry of the sheep-fold?
Extract from : « The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper » by Martin Farquhar Tupper

She did not seem in the least conscience-stricken; she said: “Thank goodness, at last!”
Extract from : « The Way of All Flesh » by Samuel Butler

Hugh was not in the least conscience-stricken at her evident lack of composure.
Extract from : « In the Mist of the Mountains » by Ethel Turner

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