Sample Sentences forcompunction (editor-reviewed)
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While most developed nations recognize the embargo, China ignores it without compunction.compunction = guilt
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He felt no compunction about breaking the rules if it meant helping his friend in need.
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Struggles and resolves had transformed themselves into compunction and anxiety. (source)
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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
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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
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This man has, I repeat, no place in a community whose basic principles he flouts 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
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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)
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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)
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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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But the Bugs didn't have any such compunctions among themselves if they could get one of us.† (source)
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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)
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It may be that he pursues her doggedly and steadily, with no touch of compunction, remorse, or pity. (source)compunction = guilt
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She had no compunctions about the lie and getting the doll under false pretenses.† (source)
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Then, as compunctious for my fault I said, "Now wilt thou therefore tell that fallen one that his son is still conjoined with the living, and if just now I was dumb to answer, make him know that I was so because I was still thinking in that error which you have solved for me."† (source)
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Will had bruised her pride too sorely for her to feel any compunction towards him and Dorothea: her own injury seemed much the greater. (source)compunction = guilt for a misdeed; or a feeling that it would be wrong to do something
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