Meanings of more compunction in anglès

The envelope of the letter he opened with a little more compunction.

He walked over them with no more compunction or feeling than over so many logs.

Julius Caesar would have had more compunction.

I struck him down with no more compunction than if he had been some foul and venomous beast.

She felt no more compunction.

He would have no more compunction over drowning her than he would have had over drowning a blind kitten.

And with no more compunction.

I know not how it is, Fairfax, but I feel more compunction, at present, than I ever remember to have felt before.

As for Mr. Smithson, why should I have any more compunction about jilting him than he had about that poor Miss Trinder?

The Camellia Buds felt no more compunction in employing the juniors on this quest than a government that organizes a secret service department.

She felt, at that minute, as though she could shoot Bud Moore with no more compunction that she would feel in swatting a fly.

Here were these worthy people promising me an heiress with no more compunction than if they had been offering me a cup of tea.

Nevertheless, Miss Dunstable seemed to have no more compunction in making calls upon his time, than she might have felt had he been her brother.

We would have killed, if possible, the whole band, as they slept, without any more compunction than we would have destroyed a nest of rattlesnakes.

This is another form of the everpresent "military necessity," which seizes men's property with little more compunction than it shows in seizing men's bodies.