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• He was advised by his lawyer to appeal against his conviction.From the entry appeal
• She harbors a conviction that her husband has a secret, criminal past.From the entry harbor
• Conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office.From the entry disqualification
• Politicians will try to unsell the public on its conviction of rearmament.From the entry unsell
• It is clear that this is not a safe conviction.From the entry safe
• She had no reason for the conviction beyond the very inadequate one that she had seen him around London.From the entry beyond
• He accepted his guilt and the conviction was unappealed.From the entry unappealed
• After his son's killer was let off without a conviction, the man decided to take the law into his own hands.From the entry take the law into one's own hands
• The divorce court was overturned when it rendered a criminal conviction against a party, because it lacked the subject matter jurisdiction to hear a criminal case.From the entry subject matter jurisdiction
• Last year, a US appeals court upheld the convictions of Holmes and Theranos President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani.2026 January 21, Clare Duffy, Hadas Gold, “Elizabeth Holmes asks Trump to let her out of prison early”, in CNN Business, archived from the…. From the entry restitution
• It forces you to withhold being wealthy to gain conviction first.2021 October 12, Dawdu M. Amantanah, “Taking The Orange Pill: A Theory Or Reality?”, in Bitcoin Magazine, archived from the original on 03…. From the entry orange pill
• His unsadistic, unvengeful commitment to the telling of truth; his wariness of the rhetoric of conviction.2016, Adam Phillips, Promises, Promises: Essays on literature and psychoanalysis, London: Faber & Faber, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN. From the entry unsadistic
• But Grayling’s enthusiasm and conviction should not be confused with naive whiggishness.2015 March 22, Julian Baggini, “The Soul of the Marionette by John Gray; The Challenge of Things by AC Grayling – review”, in The…. From the entry whiggishness
• In all three ethnographic studies, we repeatedly heard an oscillation between praxiological and mediological convictions.2013, Dominic Boyer, The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry mediological
• A renewal of accumulatory growth was associated with the SHAC 7's conviction.2012, Anthony J. Nocella II, Deric Shannon, John Asimakopoulos, The Accumulation of Freedom, page 112. From the entry accumulatory
• "We need to decide." Claire spoke with the conviction of a veteran horse trader.2012, Norb Vonnegut, The Trust, St. Martin's Press, page 93. From the entry Daisy Buchanan
• It is our conviction that piecemeal critiques of nontheisms will not suffice.2003, Norman L. Geisler, Winfried Corduan, Philosophy of Religion: Second Edition, page 9. From the entry his
• This overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction.2002 October 6, Mike Greenberg, “Guest, symphony an adept team”, in San Antonio Express-News, page 8B. From the entry undoubting
• This is a song that needs JUST a little bit more conviction to make it work.1994 January 21, Michael Bahr, “The Fountain of Lamneth”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet), message-ID <CJyv3K.Ip4@news.direct.net>. From the entry chori
• It is my conviction that the notion of Jewish Standard Time is essentially a canard.1993, Richard J. Israel, The Kosher Pig: And Other Curiosities of Modern Jewish Life. From the entry Jewish Standard Time
• Genthner's open profession of being gay was the prime factor in his conviction and sentencing.1989 February 12, anonymous author, “Innocent Man In Prison Because He Is Gay”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 5. From the entry prime factor
• But Stalin could not weaken faith and conviction in social justice.1989 July 6 [1988 December], Dmitriy Volkogonov, anonymous quotee, “Triumph and Tragedy: A Portrait of I.V. Stalin”, in JPRS Report…. From the entry authoritarianism
• It is my conviction that the evident stiffness and apodictism of the definitions cited was already predetermined.1976, Z. Bauman, Socialism, page 50. From the entry apodictism
• She’d two advantages over him: she’d more fire and a complete conviction she was in the right.1974, Stanley Middleton, Holiday. From the entry 'd
• The conviction, conjoined with Lenin's elitism, produced a fateful compound: Bolshevism.1974, A[nthony] James Gregor, “The Twentieth Century and the Crisis of Classical Marxism”, in The Fascist Persuasion in Radical Politics…. From the entry bolshevism
• The conviction of appellant Ali Akber rests on the circumstantial evidence of Mst.1971, The All Pakistan Legal Decisions. From the entry pointation
• McKeon got convictions in Detroit it broke the back of organized crime in Detroit.1970, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legal and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee, Federal Effort Against…. From the entry break the back of
• All this so impressed the Appellate Court in Aix-en-Provence that it reversed the convictions.1965 March 12, “Topless Triumph”, in Time. From the entry monokini
• He was firm in his conviction that shrubs had to be "youngened" at least once a year.1949, Mary Deputy Lamson, Landscape with Shrubs and Flowering Trees, page 273. From the entry youngen
• An engineer who is not very soviet in his convictions is the hero.1935, Louis Fischer, Soviet Journey, page 129. From the entry soviet
• Both schools of thought on the subject of interest have the courage of their convictions.1920, John Packard Jordan, Cost Accounting; Principles and Practice, page 438. From the entry inclusionist
• Nance was eager to oblige, but she had the courage of her convictions and held her point.1917, Alice Hegan Rice, chapter 4, in Calvary Alley. From the entry courage of one's convictions
• He said it with such conviction that I suddenly felt very friendly toward him.1913 September 27, Edwin Lefèvre, “Without End”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 186, number 13, Philadelphia, Pa.: Curtis Publishing…. From the entry overloquacious
• Although he voiced his honest convictions, Oakes regretted this the moment he had spoken.1907, Elliott Flower, “The Noisy Oliver”, in The Reader: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 10, Reader Publishing Company, page 309. From the entry disconcerted

Meaning of conviction

1. noun A firmly held belief.
2. noun A judgement of guilt in a court of law.
3. noun The state of being wholly convinced.

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Questions about conviction in a sentence

How do you use conviction in a sentence?

Conviction is used as a noun. For example: “He was advised by his lawyer to appeal against his conviction.”

What is a short sentence with conviction?

“He accepted his guilt and the conviction was unappealed.”

What does conviction mean?

Conviction means a firmly held belief.