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compunction

/kuhm-puhngk-shuhn/US // kəmˈpʌŋk ʃən //UK // (kəmˈpʌŋkʃən) //

强迫症,强迫性,强迫性行为,强迫症状

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse.
    • : any uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action.

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Examples

  • The stars of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, however, have no such compunctions.

  • Plus, part of the reason he’s shot so well from deep is that defenses have no compunction about leaving him open.

  • Ron and Russell, raised in Los Angeles, tell us that their parents loved bringing them to the movies, and had no compunction about walking in right in the middle.

  • You feel no compunction in removing them from the face of the Earth.

  • Salazar, as Win at All Costs reminds us, had no compunction about gaming therapeutic-use-exemption rules to get his runners on medication for the specific purpose of performance enhancement.

  • He had been audited when he was out of office, and now he had no compunction about using his power as president.

  • This is a man who has traveled to Iran and China with no compunction.

  • But we do know that voters who believe Mitt deplores them will have little compunction in not voting for him.

  • Penn State students, however, have shown no compunction about buying up as many season tickets as possible.

  • When I get them alone, I have no compunction about blowing them to bits.

  • Why should he have compunction—why think about it, when the hour of repayment was so near at hand?

  • And, after one swift glance at the first letter, Aristide had no compunction in reading.

  • And, therewith, a great tenderness and compunction in this man's heart, and a steady determination to put things right.

  • Yet this conclusion of the intellect did not prevent the pain of pity and compunction, nor an inconsequent sense of guilt.

  • I felt in those moments that for every hair of her head I could have killed a man and felt no compunction afterwards.