How to Use compunction in a Sentence

compunction

noun

• He has no compunctions about his crimes.
• He feels no compunction about his crimes.
• This regime has no such compunction.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
• These were popes with their own armies and no compunction about using them.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 10 July 2017
• That your friend felt no such compunction for your safety will be implied.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• Because he's faced with this other killer who does not have the same compunction.
  — Anhar Karim, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• Yet they are raised and slaughtered without (much) compunction.
  — Aziz Huq, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• And if the writers are true to Tolkien, our heroes will have no compunctions about killing many, many, many orcs.
  — Caitlin Penzeymoog, Vox, 7 Oct. 2024
• Street girls have no compunctions about approaching a couple.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
• Henceforth the quest, the hero’s journey, is to write what has to be written, without compunction.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2021
• Finally, there are the folks who seem to have no compunction about just breaking with the president.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
• Johnson clearly felt no such compunctions.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026
• Russia and Ukraine show no compunctions about killing the civilians of their enemy.
  — Oded J K Faran, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025
• Actor/playwright Trey Tatum, though, had no such compunction about speaking out.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 6 June 2019
• 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 boundaries of the world are delineated neatly by your compunctions.
  — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Cortés and his men are rough mercenaries who rape, plunder and murder without compunction.
  — Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Medusa is vamping, without much compunction, Revealing the writhing of thanatophidia.
  — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
• Democrats have no compunction about bigger deficits caused by domestic spending, which rarely leads to a durable increase in economic growth.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2017
• Milchick forces Helly to repeatedly read a compunction statement.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Aug. 2022
• But the sanctions episode is a stark reminder that this president has little compunction about letting his top staffers and appointees dangle.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Brown has a penchant for making things public that should otherwise stay private, without the slightest compunction.
  — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2019
• The current team — with Esper now leading the Pentagon — had no such compunctions.
  — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 13 Jan. 2020
• 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
• And given the ubiquity of AI, what use might terrorists, devoid of compunction, make of it?
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• With the benefit of 50 years’ hindsight, though, DuBois himself had no such compunction.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2020