How to Use compunction in a Sentence

compunction

noun

• He has no compunctions about his crimes.
• He feels no compunction about his crimes.
• This falls just short of rudely demanding an invitation — although Miss Manners acknowledges that your friends have no such compunction.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
• These were popes with their own armies and no compunction about using them.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 10 July 2017
• Because he's faced with this other killer who does not have the same compunction.
  — Anhar Karim, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• One more thing: my wife has no compunction about accepting the large gifts.
  — Liana Finck, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2021
• Henceforth the quest, the hero’s journey, is to write what has to be written, without compunction.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2021
• That your friend felt no such compunction for your safety will be implied.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• Two, the British Tories have an ingrained culture of stabbing their leaders in the back and in the front without compunction.
  — NBC News, 10 July 2022
• Finally, there are the folks who seem to have no compunction about just breaking with the president.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
• Their love had cooled, and Ms. Smart showed little compunction in letting someone take her place.
  — New York Times, 19 May 2022
• Yet they are raised and slaughtered without (much) compunction.
  — Aziz Huq, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• With the benefit of 50 years’ hindsight, though, DuBois himself had no such compunction.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2020
• Why leave Instagram?—but customers had far less compunction.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Feb. 2023
• And given the ubiquity of AI, what use might terrorists, devoid of compunction, make of it?
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• The victim was Jewish, and Joan has no compunction about expressing her antisemitic bigotry in the most crude and vile terms.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2021
• The small army of Trump surrogates dispatched to defend the president evinced no such compunction.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 9 June 2017
• The current team — with Esper now leading the Pentagon — had no such compunctions.
  — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 13 Jan. 2020
• Men have never felt compunction about doing this to women.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Aug. 2018
• Medusa is vamping, without much compunction, Revealing the writhing of thanatophidia.
  — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
• Actor/playwright Trey Tatum, though, had no such compunction about speaking out.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 6 June 2019
• But there’s a compunction now to fill our time with activities, with experiences that are ‘special’ in some way, with work and most of all with busy-ness.
  — Dave Murphy, SFChronicle.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• One of the many boundaries that Donald Trump shattered was this one; there is now no compunction about politicizing the deaths of Americans on a mission abroad.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 27 Aug. 2021
• Even with my incredibly supportive husband at my side, the compunction of not speaking my truth hit me like a freight train.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• The man who had no compunction whatsoever about slaughtering children left a woman who just tried to kill him alive.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• Ms. Le Pen and her party still show little compunction over using tried and true National Front strategies that stoke racial fears.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2017
• That should be done not out of moral compunction but because local businessmen or financiers can’t save the economy.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• Street girls have no compunctions about approaching a couple.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
• Scrapper’s modern setting depicts the new world disorder in which kids feel no compunction about crime.
  — Armond White, National Review, 30 Aug. 2023
• The Palestinians have been living in an Israeli walled prison for many years, and have continued to have their land grabbed by Israeli settlers without compunction.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024