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

All this occurred in a moment, and it was not any lucid and real perception of difficulties, but only a sudden alarmed compunctious consciousness that filled her mind.

From Sir Tom by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

She felt compunctious, even inclined to act on the other’s warning and advice.

From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Mitford, Bertram

“Oh, Mrs. Hawthorne, I beg of you not to feel homesick!” he cried, compunctious and really eager.

From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

The wife felt compunctious visitings, and so the husband might say his say without loss of dignity.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis