compunctious

Example Sentences

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Then I thought of the Manhattan, 90 towards whom I have guilty and compunctious feelings.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

She has no compunctious visitings for the frauds she has practised, and the misery she has inflicted upon her deceased husbands.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

A sort of compunctious silence fell upon the others at this announcement.

From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram

What hindered him from immediately acting upon it was a compunctious forecast of the concern which would prevail in his family, if he absented himself contrary to expectation.

From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane

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 Brown, George Douglas