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UK
/kəmpˈʌŋkʃən/
]
[ US /kəmˈpəŋkʃən/ ]
[ US /kəmˈpəŋkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
How To Use compunction In A Sentence
- However, I dont believe it will have much compunction about seeing vast swathes of its people, 'incinerated', if by such action, it will result in the destruction Israel. The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum
- Compared to people in other functional areas, they feel little compunction about challenging or questioning a superior.
- He could be set off by the merest interrogatory twitch, and had no compunction about personifying the ‘composer as intellectual’.
- Who lied, cheated, and stole without compunction?
- He had no compunction about tricking her: Newman was in a cold and clinical mood now that he had a positive lead to follow. COVER STORY
- He has no shame and no compunction about throwing around baseless, false accusations such as liar, theft and fraud.
- We call them sociopaths because they will cheerfully cheat or attack others without compunction.
- Designed with love, it will be destroyed without compunction.
- She said at last while Andy, with a kind of compunction in his silence, waited: The Glass Slipper
- The troubles confided to these private pages were not due to compunction for anything she had done, nor were they caused by any particular event; they expressed simply a general discontent with herself and a kind of Weltschmerz not uncommon in a young and thoughtful mind. Lady John Russell