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

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

From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram

The wicked often feel compunctious visitings in the midst of their sins, or smart under the rod of civil justice, or are tortured with natural evils.

From Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker by Golden, M. (Meletios)

She must have gone indoors, they concluded, and Esther began to feel very compunctious for having left her alone so long.

From The Carroll Girls by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

"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 Cambridge, Ada