disapproval If you say that someone has no compunction about doing something, you mean that they do it without feeling ashamed or guilty. He has no compunction about relating how he killed his father. a feeling that you should not do something because it is bad or wrong have/feel no compunction about (doing) sth (componction, from , from compungere , from com- ( COM-) + pungere ( PUNGENT))
A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience