I had little doubt then, and I have less doubt now, that he would have knocked me down without the least compunction, if I had hesitated.

I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.

If they fire, Watson, have no compunction about shooting them down."

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

So much compunction for having ever wronged him, even by a shapeless thought, did I feel within me, that the confession of having done so was rising to my lips.

A violent sociopath, he brutalizes and murders people, even his own henchmen, without compunction or remorse.

Despite massive resistance — both civilian and military — the conservative forces had learned the lessons of the failed October, 1970 uprising, and applied brutality without compunction.