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Conscience money   /kˈɑnʃəns mˈəni/   Listen
Conscience money

noun
1.
Payment made voluntarily to reduce guilt over dishonest dealings.





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"Conscience money" Quotes from Famous Books



... Wilson. I have done my first and last bit of gambling. I don't think it is nice, ladies betting, after all, and if there were a hospital here I should order you to send the money the gloves will cost you to it as conscience money, and then perhaps you might follow ...
— Rujub, the Juggler • G. A. Henty
... doing something else. If I gave a costly entertainment, I was accused of showy ostentation. If I didn't give it, I was accused of not putting money into honest circulation. If I donated to a church, it was called conscience money; and if I didn't donate to it, they said I was mean and miserly. So much for what I've done. I was just wondering—what the other fellow'd ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter


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