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Difference Between Conscientious and Conscionable

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Conscientious

Characterized by extreme care and great effort;
Conscientious application to the work at hand
Painstaking research
Scrupulous attention to details

Conscionable

Acceptable or permissible according to conscience
The debate over whether capital punishment is conscionable.

Conscientious

Wishing to do one's work or duty well and thoroughly
A conscientious man, he took his duties very seriously

Conscionable

Conscientious; principled.

Conscientious

Relating to a person's conscience
The individual is denied even the opportunity to break the law on conscientious grounds

Conscionable

In accordance with conscience; defensible; proper.
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Conscientious

Guided by or in accordance with the dictates of conscience; principled
A conscientious decision to speak out about injustice.

Conscionable

Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just.
Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction.

Conscientious

Thorough and assiduous
A conscientious worker.
A conscientious effort to comply with the regulations.

Conscionable

Acceptable to your conscience

Conscientious

Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance.
He was a thoughtful and conscientious worker.

Conscientious

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).
The advice of wise and conscientious people.
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Conscientious

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.
The advice of wise and conscientious men.

Conscientious

Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; - said of actions.
A holy and conscientious course.

Conscientious

Guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong;
A conscientious decision to speak out about injustice

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