compunctious
Example Sentences
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Miss Colishaw's grim indignation, Mrs. Joy's cool audacity, her own compunctious helplessness,—all were indicated in turn.
From A Little Country Girl by Susan Coolidge
That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Finally the servants gave up the attempt to coax him back into the world, and with a compunctious pity they spread an old rug for him on the chest, and fed him faithfully every day.
From An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan
"Why do you bother about those brats, Miss Liddon, while the nurse spends all her time flirting over the back fence?" their father said, in a gay but compunctious tone.
From A Humble Enterprise by Ada Cambridge
Any confusion attaching to this adventure, however, dropped from Kate, whom, as he could see with sacred joy, it must take more than that to make compunctious.
From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by Henry James
