Conscientious in a sentence as an adjective

Based on what he saw, after long introspection, he applied for conscientious objector status.

It's an honest assessment by a conscientious engineer.

Furthermore, more conscientious students are more likely to grin and bear it, thus giving the A students a lower rate of reporting.

I used to be a submarine officer in the Navy, but I was discharged 2 years ago as a conscientious objector [1].

I had never been particularly conscientious, so being in an environment where I was now responsible for my learning was new to me.

The community we're currently discussing this in, on the other hand, has been a lot more conscientious in cultivating the type of garden it would like to see.

"Higgs's observation suggests that the systematic stamping out of non-conscientious non-conformists is a byproduct of over-scheduling them.

They really understand the behavior of each platform, and make many conscientious decisions based on considerations for performance and cross-platform consistency.

She mentions the idealistic, conscientious young man who joins the police thinking that he will be able to help the public, but if he finds the work brutal and inhumane, he quits and finds some other job where he feels he can do more to help the public.

The reason fads can be successful usually have less to do with the specific mechanics and minutiae of their gospel and more to do with the fact that you're conscientious about what you're putting into your body and diligent about treating it well.

* edit: misspelled conscientious as 'contentious'* edit: as an example of how much Simon continues to challenge the police as a citizen, here's an essay he wrote after the success of the Wire, in which he tried, as a citizen, to get the basic details of a cop-involved shooting, something that has always been public record.

Conscientious definitions

adjective

characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"

See also: painstaking scrupulous

adjective

guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice"