compunction

How To Use compunction In A Sentence

• Joseph had come to accept his own medical masquerade so thoroughly that he felt no compunction about taking this project on. THE LONGEST WAY HOME
• Anne obviously did not share her sister's compunction about frightening her mother. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
• The former human rights and insurance lawyer said his commission would have no compunction about prosecuting corrupt foreign investors in court in the capital Freetown, and that could land them in a Sierra Leonean prison. West African leaders pledge to battle corruption
• Without compunction, Fox kicked him awake.
• He attacked the credibility of alleged accomplices who had turned state witness, saying there was little doubt that they had lied without compunction.
• For it is clear they would do the same again, both in America and around the world, without compunction or hesitation.
• Hence his way of life can be sacrificed without compunction, and his protests go unheard.
• She clutched the bundle of wood to her chest like a shield and lied without compunction.
• This is a garden-variety malapropism, substituting compulsion for the similar-sounding word compunction, though the meanings are radically different.
• The reasons for cutting off funding don't so much involve "compunction" as whether the department has to fund sixth- and seventh-year students in order to meet the teaching expectations of the university. Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be PhDs!