compunction 的定义
- 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.
compunction 近义词
regret, sorrow
更多compunction例句
- 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.