compunction
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- n a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
- Torture, presented with gusto and almost no moral compunction, is an increasingly popular way of gathering intelligence on 24.
- You have demonstrated how the deified hero of conservatism had no compunction about stooping to race baiting for political gain.
- Tony has absolutely no compunction about murdering for profit, which quickly endears him to a Batista Cuban refugee who is the chief of the Bolivia-to-Florida cocaine traffic.