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feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done
- he appeared not the least bit compunctious about ditching his friends at the restaurant and leaving them to pay the bill
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“Compunctious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compunctious. Accessed 20 Jan. 2022.
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