compunction

Example Sentences

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Other Chinese miners have fewer compunctions about seeking new frontiers.

From Washington Post

The real evil is her envious rival in the fashion world, Emma Thompson's Baroness Von Hellman, who is wealthy and cruel and – gasp!— has zero compunction about murdering people, including babies.

From Salon

“I have no compunction ... in the least about owning Chevron,” Buffett said.

From Reuters

Such disingenuous tactics are grimly successful; public perception is highly malleable, and those hawking them have zero compunction over harnessing a faux-veneer of scientific legitimacy to push profoundly pseudoscientific narratives.

From Salon

In Latin America, audiences continue to love Speedy with little compunction because they accept him at face value — a Mexican mouse who makes a mockery out of Yankee pussygatos again and again.

From Los Angeles Times