Definitions for conscience-stricken

conscience-stricken con·science-strick·en

Spelling: [kon-shuh ns-strik-uh n]
IPA: /ˈkɒn ʃənsˌstrɪk ən/

Conscience-Stricken is a 19 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 1550 anagrams from letters in conscience-stricken (-cccceeeiiknnnorsst).

Definitions for conscience-stricken

adjective

  1. greatly troubled or disturbed by the knowledge of having acted wrongfully.

Origin of conscience-stricken

First recorded in 1810-20

Examples for conscience-stricken

Is a fox-hound not conscience-stricken for his harry of the sheep-fold?

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

He must have been conscience-stricken and more to be pitied, perhaps, than condemned.

She did not seem in the least conscience-stricken; she said: “Thank goodness, at last!”

Hugh was not in the least conscience-stricken at her evident lack of composure.

She was now in a moment so conscience-stricken that her very basket partook of the change.

"I had almost forgotten him," he cried in a conscience-stricken tone.

He was conscience-stricken and fully as miserable as she professed to be.

Caroline, he was the most distressed and conscience-stricken man in the city.

But Clemens, conscience-stricken, "blushed and weakened," as he said.

Word Value for conscience-stricken
Scrable

16

Words with friends

21

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