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compunction
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  • He ruins a man with as little compunction as one could fancy him, in his younger days, pulling the legs from a fly.  (source)
    compunction = guilt or misgiving
  • Will the creature feel any compunction at tyrannizing over them?†  (source)
  • We assented vigorously, repeatedly, and without compunction.†  (source)
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  • You say you aren't an enemy of Nephilim, but you set each of us against each other, family against family, wrecking lives without compunction.  (source)
    compunction = guilt for a misdeed
  • Jenny, on the other hand, was having no such compunctions.†  (source)
  • Then I, as if compunctious for my fault, Said: "Now, then, you will tell that fallen one, That still his son is with the living joined.†  (source)
    compunctious = pricking the conscious (causing the feeling that it would be wrong to do something)
  • This man has, I repeat, no place in a community whose basic principles he flouts without compunction.  (source)
    compunction = regret or guilt
  • It would have been different if that wasn't the case—he'd had no compunctions, at the time, against making a meal of me.†  (source)
  • Mother and daughter adored each other and revered their son and brother; and Archer loved them with a tenderness made compunctious and uncritical by the sense of their exaggerated admiration, and by his secret satisfaction in it.†  (source)
    compunctious = pricking the conscious (causing the feeling that it would be wrong to do something)
  • This child had taken and lost her treasured amethyst brooch and now sat there calmly reciting the details thereof without the least apparent compunction or repentance.  (source)
    compunction = regret or guilt
  • The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything.†  (source)
  • Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose  (source)
    compunctious = from feelings of conscience (the feeling that it would be wrong to do something)
  • Her look smote him with compunction, and he cried out, as if he saw her drowning in a dream:  (source)
    compunction = a feeling of deep regret and guilt
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