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• One's conscience.

  ‘No matter how much you may protest that you're a poet, not a web-designer, your better feelings take charge and off you go, fiddling here, examining there, investigating and validating until the fault has gone away.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘I keep reading him in spite of my better feelings.’
  • ‘Despite all my better feelings and all the desire to see through this particular hype, I couldn't help myself.’