Crossword-Solution: COMPUNCTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Compunction | n. | A pricking; stimulation. |
| Compunction | n. | A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience. |
We have 93 clues for the answer “COMPUNCTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Feeling of guilt that prevents wrongdoing | 1 answer |
| attrition | 10 answers |
| ask forgiveness | 10 answers |
| be remorseful | 11 answers |
| penitence | 12 answers |
| feel sorrow | 13 answers |
| feel remorse | 14 answers |
| Repent | 15 answers |
| Reservation | 17 answers |
| Contrition | 19 answers |
| be penitent | 20 answers |
| be sorry | 22 answers |
| TURNING red | 25 answers |
| Atone | 26 answers |
| apologise | 30 answers |
| Guilt | 35 answers |
| CONSCIENCE ___ | 37 answers |
| reluctance | 41 answers |
| Qualm | 45 answers |
| repentance | 45 answers |
| scruple | 46 answers |
| "Pity!" | 46 answers |
| Grieve | 49 answers |
| shamefacedness | 49 answers |
| subservience | 49 answers |
| Suspicion | 50 answers |
| ABASEMENT | 51 answers |
| bashfulness | 51 answers |
| worsening | 51 answers |
| overhanging | 51 answers |
| Wallowing | 52 answers |
| Opprobrium | 52 answers |
| cringing | 52 answers |
| disesteem | 53 answers |
| grovelling | 53 answers |
| cowering | 54 answers |
| servility | 54 answers |
| Creeping | 55 answers |
| Mortification | 56 answers |
| Obloquy | 56 answers |
| Ignominy | 56 answers |
| desecration | 57 answers |
| stigma | 58 answers |
| Disrepute | 58 answers |
| disapprobation | 59 answers |
| PERPLEXED state | 59 answers |
| vacillation | 61 answers |
| Decadence | 61 answers |
| Sorrow | 62 answers |
| Lament | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CMEAZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with COMPUNCTION (5)
Had he discovered something then? Had he already laid his plans for catching the daring plotter, red-handed, in France, and sending him to the guillotine without compunction or delay? Marguerite turned sick with horror, and her hand convulsively clutched the ring in her dress.
Not that Rokoff would have felt the slightest compunction in ignoring any promises he might have made the girl, but he disliked the idea of having to sue for favour with one who had so recently assaulted and escaped him.
The fact that he had brought back with him the woman prisoner who had escaped, added strength to his claims, and Mohammed Beyd soon found himself fraternizing good-naturedly with the very man whom he would have slain without compunction had he discovered him alone in the jungle a half hour before.
Thinking thus, would he kill the King, my rival and my danger? Ay, verily, that he would, with as little compunction as he would kill a rat.
Lorry’s inquiries into Miss Pross’s personal history had established the fact that her brother Solomon was a heartless scoundrel who had stripped her of everything she possessed, as a stake to speculate with, and had abandoned her in her poverty for evermore, with no touch of compunction.
Quotes with COMPUNCTION (3)
In all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor’d with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn t…
He went on, but I tuned him out. I made eye contact and nodded occasionally, but I didn’t hear what he was saying. I had heard it all before. Even men who should’ve known better — overeducated progressive types who probably considered themselves feminists — had no compunction explaining things to me.
...[Y]ou know very well the truth of what I [say]... I have incurred a great deal of bitter hostility; and this is what will bring about my destruction, if anything does... the slander and jealousy of a very large section of the people. They have been fatal to a great many other innocent men, and I suppose will continue to be so; there is no likelihood that they will stop at me. But perhaps someone will say 'Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of a…