compunction

they used their tanks without compunction .

I have little compunction in doing it.

ended the relationship without compunction;

he had no compunction about digging into her private affairs.

I felt some compunction at having kept her waiting.

Why is it that New Delhi is so sensitive about stepping on Beijing's toes, when China has no compunction about stomping on Indian toes, and with hobnailed boots at that?

Compunction, a now meaning distress over an anticipated action or result.

Even now I cannot feel much compunction for my behavior by the Hon.

For I have become susceptible to compunctions.

He has no regrets or compunctions.

But she seemed timid at his approach, and compunction wrought on him at sight of it.

There was so much wretchedness compressed into the two words that Anthony felt a measure of compunction.

It was impossible to imagine one throb or twitter of compunction beneath those frankly egotistic and infectious transports.

He was not so credulous as to believe that this savage ape-man would have any compunctions about slaying him.

But they were generally accompanied by a sense of compunction and self-abasement of which Newland Archer felt no trace.

'You hardly expect me to forget that you sent me to almost certain death without a shadow of compunction'?