How To Use Compunction In A Sentence
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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
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Anne obviously did not share her sister's compunction about frightening her mother.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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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
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Without compunction, Fox kicked him awake.
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He attacked the credibility of alleged accomplices who had turned state witness, saying there was little doubt that they had lied without compunction.
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For it is clear they would do the same again, both in America and around the world, without compunction or hesitation.
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Hence his way of life can be sacrificed without compunction, and his protests go unheard.
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She clutched the bundle of wood to her chest like a shield and lied without compunction.
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This is a garden-variety malapropism, substituting compulsion for the similar-sounding word compunction, though the meanings are radically different.
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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!
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And whanne my felowes and I seyghe that, whan we comen in, wee diden of oure shoon, and camen in barefote, and thoughten that we scholden don as moche worschipe and reverence there to, as ony of the mysbeleevynge men sholde, and as gret compunction in herte to have.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Lady Winsleigh studied the lovely face, eloquent with love and truth, for some moments in silence; -- a kind of compunction pricked her conscience.
Thelma
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The Senator had no compunction about appealing to minority interests, cynically perhaps, but certainly effectively.
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I knew that I was prodding him deeply and severely, thrusting the iron into his soul with as little compunction as a Mexican _charo_ exerts when he "cinches" a heavily burdened _burro_.
Princess Zara
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He had no compunction in reducing officers to the ranks or hitting men who failed the test in action.
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I hoist my tankard to you, sir, and blatantly violate my own moral compunctions against posting again.
Elderly Women Charged With Beating Fawn To Death
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Terry's has been looking at the deeds of his own past life and is feeling "compunction", the sting of guilt.
Compunction
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The appearance and opinions of those they had left behind them prompted them to this kind of congratulation, with just a thought of compunction at the back of it for their own better fortunes.
The Imperialist
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In later times the most enlightened heathen nations indulged in the sin of Sodom without compunction or shame. are set forth -- before our eyes. suffering -- undergoing to this present time; alluding to the marks of volcanic fire about the Dead Sea. the vengeance -- Greek, "righteous retribution." eternal fire -- The lasting marks of the fire that consumed the cities irreparably, is a type of the eternal fire to which the inhabitants have been consigned.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Hyde had had no compunction about stealing bread, dried meat, the donkey.
THE LAST RAVEN
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The ability to trample the rights of fellow human beings without compunction is rooted in a belief that the needs of society outweigh the needs of the individual.
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That rare possibility of self-contemplation which comes in any complete severance from our wonted life made her judge herself as she had never done before: the compunction which is inseparable from a sympathetic nature keenly alive to the possible experience of others, began to stir in her with growing force.
Romola
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The same doctor said that the sales reps who work for the biggest pharmaceutical companies predictably tend to have few compunctions about giving their products the hard sell.
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Hyde had had no compunction about stealing bread, dried meat, the donkey.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Simon had no compunction in ousting what had been the thegn from his hut and appropriating his chair.
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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Apart from Thierry Henry, whose handball helped France pinch the ticket to South Africa from Ireland's pockets, none of the greats really showed remorse, though one will never know whether they actually felt something called compunction in their private hours.
The Times of India
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If the ancient human habit of taking what we want without understanding, without compassion, and without compunction continues unrestricted, it will lead us to extinction.
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The ‘nice’ party has been revealed as no such thing - rather, enthusiastically and without compunction, it destroyed its greatest electoral asset, a leader who had delivered its finest hour only months before.
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But I can, without compunction, recommend the film purely on its own merits.
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But then he will have no compunction in taking Friday afternoon off to go shopping with his spouse.
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In West End drawing-rooms his personal gift had begun to tell no less than in this crowded, squalid East; and as his aims became known, other men, finding the thoughts of their own hearts revealed in him, or touched with that social compunction which is one of the notes of our time, came down and became his helpers.
Robert Elsmere
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Compared to people in other functional areas, they feel little compunction about challenging or questioning a superior.
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V operates without compunction or mercy, and his brand of enforced anarchy is just as dictatorial as the forces to which he is opposed.
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It's now clear that the foundation has a double-standard about who it gives money to and receives money from, and no compunction about using its well-known and well-guarded name to provide marketing clout and the appearance of good behavior to some bad corporate actors.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: False Apology: At Least Four Komen Recipients - And Sponsors Like Bank Of America - Are 'Under Investigation'
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They would have no compunction about silencing a fellow countryman who'd discovered their hidden lair.
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You will kill without compunction and die without complaint.
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And no, I wouldn’t have trotted out my qualifications if you hadn’t tried that: I don’t believe in credentialism anyway, but I have no compunction about using mine to ruthlessly squash any who go with that bit.
Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers
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At last being in his cell, at those words of the psalmist; _I will give thee understanding, and will instruct thee_, he was suddenly visited by God with an extraordinary light and spirit of compunction, which from that time never left him.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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They would have no compunction about silencing a fellow countryman who'd discovered their hidden lair.
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For it is clear they would do the same again, both in America and around the world, without compunction or hesitation.
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He had no compunction about interfering in her private affairs.
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The courts have no similar compunction about making injunctions to prevent torts and these have very much the same effect.
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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
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But whereas there are different apprehensions about these effects or concomitants of conviction (in compunction, humiliation, self-judging, with sorrow for sin committed, and the like), as also about the degrees of them, as ordinarily prerequired unto faith and conversion unto God, I shall speak very briefly unto them, so far as they are inseparable from the conviction asserted.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
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Being examined concerning this bloudy fact, he plainly confessed, that hee himselfe had committed the murder, and afterward would not depart from the Cave, but purposely stayed for apprehension, as being truely toucht with compunction for so foule an offence: upon which eremptorie confession, Marcus Varro being then Praetor, gave sentence that he should be crucified on a
The Decameron
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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
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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
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She said at last while Andy, with a kind of compunction in his silence, waited:
The Glass Slipper
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Designed with love, it will be destroyed without compunction.
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We call them sociopaths because they will cheerfully cheat or attack others without compunction.
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He has no shame and no compunction about throwing around baseless, false accusations such as liar, theft and fraud.
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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
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Who lied, cheated, and stole without compunction?
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He could be set off by the merest interrogatory twitch, and had no compunction about personifying the ‘composer as intellectual’.
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Compared to people in other functional areas, they feel little compunction about challenging or questioning a superior.
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Notwithstanding all these arguments a compunction was always present in Miss Eelen's worn out yet not extinguished heart.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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They would have no compunction about silencing a fellow countryman who'd discovered their hidden lair.
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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
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Altogether this provided an ideological charter for the most extreme action, without compunction or remorse.
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As a free 'unhoused' young man, therefore, had he been such, without ties or obligations in life, he would have felt the profoundest compunction at the anticipation of any serious injury inflicted upon another man's hopes or happiness, or upon his own.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
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I don’t believe in credentialism anyway, but I have no compunction about using mine to ruthlessly squash any who go with that bit.
Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers
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How can soldiers, who are trained to kill enemy combatants without compunction, be decompressed and integrated back into civilian life?
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What, have you no compunctions at that word starve? no bitter, dreadful recollections?
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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They were intended to move the will of the one praying not only to compunction for sin and penitence, but to a desire for God and confidence in God's love.
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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
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The teachers themselves organise photocopying of books without any moral compunction, assuming that they are after all helping their students.
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The truth is that the average consumer today has no moral compunction about beating the system.
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Anne obviously did not share her sister's compunction about frightening her mother.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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Good humans feel no compunction about exterminating inhuman creatures that prey upon the innocent.
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This evasion does no credit to John Williams (the composer of the original music to Jaws), and implies that even the producers of the advert have no compunction in hypocritically avoiding paying the royalties they’d presumably otherwise argue he’s due.
Will MPAA advert generate Jaws IV?
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Hence his way of life can be sacrificed without compunction, and his protests go unheard.
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Abandoning Thrawn's elegant tactics, these Imperials struck without compunction.
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In the marketplace everything becomes a commodity and all workers become wage slaves who can be fired without compunction.
