as in doubts
an uneasy feeling about the rightness of what one is doing or going to do
throughout her school years she cheated without compunction
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Recent Examples of compunctions
The boundaries of the world are delineated neatly by your compunctions.
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Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for compunctions
Noun
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Sean Westwood, a government professor at Dartmouth College and director of the Polarization Research Lab, raised doubts about the study’s methodology.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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Recall the rise of Koo (6-2, 180) the next time the doubts come up.—
Dan Albano,
Oc Register,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Manager Stephen Vogt had no qualms about letting DeLauter face a lefty.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Make no qualms about it—fragrance is booming, and has been for the past five years like never before.—
Kayla Greaves,
Essence,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Reviewing pages have been thinned by the forces of history and technology; few Pynchon skeptics anymore bother to take the time to read the novels and register their objections.—
Book Marks
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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As the administration takes aim at vessels in the Caribbean, senators and lawmakers of both major political parties have raised stark objections.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Incensed at being outsmarted, the CEO of Weyland-Yutani (Sandra Yi Sencindive) allows one of her employees, a cyborg with very few scruples named Morrow (Babou Ceesay), to use any means necessary to reacquire the biological specimens.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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At this point in its history, the theory goes, the United States requires a willful and largely unaccountable power to impose changes that leaders with more delicate sensibilities and procedural scruples cannot ever accomplish.—
Russell Muirhead,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Yes, the point difference was largely due to special teams misgivings, but Canales’ situational choices led to some of those miscues.—
Mike Kaye
September 28,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Sep. 2025
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Some House Republicans are expressing similar misgivings with the direction the country is headed, warning that Kennedy’s ascension to the top of the HHS threatens to undermine a decades-old trust in vaccines that experts say have saved countless lives.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Compunctions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compunctions. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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