compunctious

Example Sentences

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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

The English translator, speaking of the sacking of Panama, has expressed himself with a strange mixture of boasting and compunctious feeling.

From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James

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

"I am late!" she said with a compunctious glance at the clock.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan

Then as he tried to comfort her, being very compunctious himself at having failed utterly to trust one so brave and noble, she suddenly drew herself from his embrace.

From How It All Came Round by Meade, L. T.