Compunctious

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Troubled with a feeling of compunction.
  • Causing compunction; pricking the conscience; causing misgiving, regret, or remorse.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Pertaining to compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.
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    regretful