compunction

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[1] The lion doesn't feel moral compunction for "stealing" the hyena's kill, and why should he?

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a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)

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noun

a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)

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noun

a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)

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[1] The lion doesn't feel moral compunction for "stealing" the hyena's kill, and why should he?

At $200 I will have no compunction using it in the kitchen, bathroom, cafe... wherever.

"Those who want to "get" Snowden have already shown that they have no compunction about lying under oath, so that is where my fear originates.

But then, there are entrenched interests who want to, or at least have no compunction to, keep the majority of the population down.

FTA, which took the words right out of my mouth:I have no compunction in getting tethering for free, either from wired Play Store apps, or the root-only hotspot apps.

The bureaucracy there has no compunction about useless majors, irrelevant classes, shallow professors -- things one may encounter if they just go with the flow.

I sat next to my very first technical mentor for a few years, and he had no compunction about holding up a finger and saying "hang on" curtly when I'd start to ask something.

On the plus side, it will be taken by technologists who apparently have no compunction about relieving financially illiterate people of their retirement cash.

I feel no sympathy for a company who has no compunction about posting others' work uncited/unattributed much less even uncompensated.

> someone who wants nothing more than an excuse to hurt you, and who has no compunction about doing soMaybe a few government employees are like that, but most are just regular people who are trying to get through a day of work like anyone else.

Keep in mind, humans had absolutely no compunction about inventing antibiotics to selectively exterminate entire species of bacteria that happened to inconvenience us. I'd hate to have something so powerful with the same kind of power over us. Technology enhances our lives now because we have agency over it, not the other way around.