in conscience

Idioms  

1. Also, in all good conscience. In all truth or fairness, as in I can't in conscience say that the meeting went well, or In all good conscience we can't support their stand on disarmament. [Late 1500s]

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Example Sentences

"We wish to remain in total communion with the church but we cannot signify more clearly, or more painfully either, our incapacity in conscience to obey what we are commanded to do."

From Fox News • Dec. 8, 2018

This is a superb reminder, a question that brings in conscience and social justice.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2017

“As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences,” declared Mr Bradlee, who died on October 21st, aged 93.

From Economist • Oct. 23, 2014

Yet I could not, in conscience, enter into a relationship bringing the baggage of my illness; it would not be fair to do so.

From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2014

Jest or jeer, fun or fight, were alike free of the gathering where he presided; but everything had to be in conscience and reason, for Christian drew the line rigidly at marline-spikes and belaying pins.

From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir