HAVE A CLEAR CONSCIENCE Definition & Meaning

have a clear conscience

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, have a clean conscience . Feel free of guilt or responsibility. For example, I have a clear conscience—I did all I could to help . This idiom is also put as one's conscience is clear or clean , as in His conscience is clean about telling the whole story . The adjective clear has been used in the sense of “innocent” since about 1400; clean was so used from about 1300.

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"I have a clear conscience. I have given 100% and I don't understand it, I didn't see my termination as deserved."

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At the end of the play, no one can possibly have a clear conscience.

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And, as for those benefits for the drivers and the supposed economic opportunity of the gig economy, MacGann now says, “When that turned out not to be the case — we had actually sold people a lie — how can you have a clear conscience if you don’t stand up and own your contribution to how people are being treated today?”

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“I have a clear conscience,” Chung said in his plea.

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"I hope the decision-makers have a clear conscience," he replied.

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