compunction

The bigger question is why we keep watching it, and what kind of human qualms and compunctions we have to push aside to indulge.

“Where Trump has absolutely no compunction at going to the basest level he can to try to get a result, I saw Joe moving into that very reluctantly,” Mr. Burris said.

In the old days, the leagues had few compunctions about shunning gambling because they saw it as a competing revenue stream.

He stopped short of accusing Kyiv directly, but on Sunday, some of his allies showed no such compunction.

An Oscar winner for “Argo” and veteran editor of such movies as “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Heat” and “The Imitation Game,” Goldenberg had no compunction about letting so many cooks into the kitchen.