sense of shame

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sense of shame - a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility

sense of duty

conscience, moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong - motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions

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conscience
moral sense
scruples
sense of duty
sense of right and wrong

shame
shamefaced
sheepish
To throw off

With amazement did she first understand that he believed any apology to be in his power; and steadfastly was she persuaded, that he could have no explanation to give, which a just sense of shame would not conceal.

Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context

She felt that at that moment she could not put into words the sense of shame, of rapture, and of horror at this stepping into a new life, and she did not want to speak of it, to vulgarize this feeling by inappropriate words.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context

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