Word Finder - conscientious

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Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance.

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He was a thoughtful and conscientious worker.

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Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong (said of a person).

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The advice of wise and conscientious women.

Alex was conscientious and he would never ask his employees to do anything he wouldn't do.

She was conscientious with regard to her duties as examiner.

He was a hard and conscientious worker and became widely known for his ability in debate.

They have conscientious scruples to overcome.

It goes without saying that one must be conscientious and methodical.

The children became more conscientious about their own learning.

He Was Distinctly A Bon Vivant, But Withal An Upright, Conscientious And Capable Minister.

All Wiseman's later years were darkened by Errington's conscientious but implacable hostility to Manning, and to himself in so far as he was supposed to be acting under Manning's influence.

The history is written in an agreeable style and a spirit of impartiality, and gives evidence of a conscientious use of authorities.

So far, however, as it is possible to disengage one's self from this captivation, it may be said that the mingling of distinct and original vision with a singularly conscientious handling of the English language, in the sincere and wholesome self-consciousness of the strenuous artist, seems to be the central feature of Stevenson as a writer by profession.

There is no evidence that any speech in Acts is the free composition of its author, without either written or oral basis; and in general he seems more conscientious than most ancient historians touching the essentials of historical accuracy, even as now understood.

He was a conscientious historian with a standard biased in favor of maintenance of the status quo.

He was a thoroughly conscientious clerk, devoted to his duty and unsparing of trouble.

For our translation co-ordinators we are seeking conscientious, motivated individuals to join our busy administrative team.

With his conscientious objection, is he still able to counsel patients?

Bernstorff was not only one of the ablest but one of the noblest and most conscientious statesmen of his day.

We have eliminated debtors prisons, developed the idea of "women and children first," stigmatized child labor, made accommodations for conscientious objectors, widely adopted freedom of speech and the press and freedom of assembly, and a hundred more.

A conscientious desire to unearth the facts, and the effort of extracting from the dullest records the materials for graphic pictures, made the process of production excessively painful.

There can be no doubt that Professor Burmeister discharged his editorial duty with the most conscientious scrupulosity; but, from what has been just said, it is certain that there were important points on which Nitzsch was as yet undecided - some of them perhaps of which no trace appeared in his manuscripts, and therefore as in every case of works posthumously published, unless (as rarely happens) they have received their author's " imprimatur," they cannot be implicitly trusted as the expression of his final views.

He was conscientious, with the ability to work as part of a team.

Had Petrarch been possessed with a passion for some commanding principle in politics, morality or science, instead of with the thirst for selfglorification and the ideal of artistic culture, it is not wholly impossible that Italian humanism might have assumed a manlier and more conscientious tone.

There was a conscientious objection clause for medical staff, with a provision for the patient to be referred to another doctor.

He was, however, an able and conscientious experimenter, and was very fertile and ingenious in devising physical apparatus.

Weak and shortsighted as a statesman, as a man and prelate Dalberg was amiable, conscientious and large-hearted.

But though his work is thus, like that of many historians, coloured by his opinions, this was not the outcome of a conscious purpose, and he was scrupulously conscientious in collecting and weighing his materials.

But from 1600 onwards the same persons fulfilled both functions, the object being, by giving the assessors the duty of collecting the tax, to lead to a duster and more conscientious assessment.

He was a devout and conscientious churchman, and had the courage to stand by his principles.

From the priests he demanded faithfulness in preaching and teaching, from the bishops the conscientious government of their dioceses.

His earliest governesses were the wives of a tailor and a vintner from the Dutch settlement; a sailor called Norman taught him the rudiments of navigation; and, when he grew older, he was placed under the care of a Hungarian refugee, Janos Zeikin, who seems to have been a conscientious teacher.

Brown & Root probably does as conscientious a job for the government as the next contractor.

Captain Desbriere's exhaustive work was done for the historical section of the French general staff, and is a fine example of the scholarly and conscientious modern French historical school.

Don Juan de Zuniga, who was appointed to teach him the use of arms, was more conscientious; but he had a very poor pupil.

From these religious exercises any children may absent themselves whose parents profess conscientious objections.

We have in this list no genuine tradition, but rather the lucubrations of an undoubtedly conscientious Moslem critic, who may have lived about a century after the Flight.

These prescriptions are marked by a conscientious classification based on considerations of material, size and number; but they lose themselves in an exaggerated casuistry.

Resigning in 1882 owing to conscientious scruples, he became professor extraordinarius of oriental languages in the faculty of philology at Halle, was elected professor ordinarius at Marburg in 1885, and was transferred to Gottingen in 1892.

Yet this rehabilitation of pre-Reformation Germany cannot but make a strong appeal to the unbiased historical student who looks to a conscientious study of the antecedents of the revolt as furnishing the true key to the movement.

The acceptance of the proposition to call the convention and the election of many conscientious and intelligent delegates were largely due to the influence of ex-Governor Brown, who was strongly convinced that the wisest course for the South was to accept quickly what Congress had offered.

To the unbroken splendours of his military career, to his honourable and conscientious labours as a parliamentary statesman, life unusually prolonged added an evening of impressive beauty and calm.

Yet the conscientious tradition of Prussian officialism accomplished much in the way of administrative reform.

He was no friend to the Reformation, it is true, but he was at least a conscientious opponent.

Fustel de Coulanges was the most conscientious of men, the most systematic and uncompromising of historians.

After America entered the war he recommended moderation towards conscientious objectors and forbade men in uniform to interfere with anti-conscription meetings.

Stinnes managed to maintain an extensive and even a detailed knowledge of the working of all the concerns in which he was engaged, and in all of them to exact zealous and conscientious work from his business subordinates.

According to her small ability she served the state well, and was zealous and conscientious in the fulfilment of public duties, in which may be included touching for the king's evil, which she revived.

Of the four continuers of Brito's work, three are no better than their master, but Frei Antonio Brandao, who dealt with the period from King Alphonso Henriques to King John II., proved himself a man of high intelligence and a learned, conscientious historian.

He was extremely conscientious from the very first day of the investigation.

She was an only child and had been highly conscientious and hard working, with little time for play.

In the last months of his life, under the influence of a great national disaster, the conscientious, persistent autocrat began to suspect that his system was a mistake, but he still clung to it obstinately.

By common consent he was pre-eminently God-fearing, orderly and conscientious.