compunctious
Example Sentences
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Hitherto, in the midst of his lowest depravity, he had always experienced compunctious visitings; he had been always haunted by a sense of forfeited respectability; and had frequently felt a feeble desire to reform.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
My daughter! my daughter!" followed by the compunctious "God!
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
"I am late!" she said with a compunctious glance at the clock.
From Say and Seal, Volume I by Susan Warner
Decent folk in the brake behind felt compunctious visitings when they saw him turn with the flushed grin and the gleaming squint on the head of his enduring victim.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
A sort of compunctious silence fell upon the others at this announcement.
From In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford
