compunctious

Example Sentences

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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

“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

“I can never, never thank you enough,” she said, and held out to him a hand that somehow pleased him, and made him compunctious at the same time—such a white, slender, gentlewoman’s hand it was.

From In the Mist of the Mountains by Macfarlane, J.

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 James, Henry

Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies moldering before him?

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)