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What is a pang of conscience?

What is a pang of conscience? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (often pluralized) A feeling of shame, guilt, or embarrassment, resulting from behavior which one regrets.
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They do so, he believes, not out of any pang of conscience, but because those sites elegantly created a one-stop destination.
Perhaps it was because of some pang of conscience on his part – for covering up the true human cost of warfare in his films – that Huston later made his heartbreakingly beautiful postwar documentary Let There Be Light.
He did not, as he would have you believe, have a sudden pang of conscience, an epiphany, an experience of sudden and striking realisation.
They unblinkingly and without pang of conscience have gone into the business of subordinating our national interests to their political agenda.
The two got a contract and started working on the recipes — testing and tweaking, sending notes back and forth, feeding the results to their children — and then Crittenden was hit by a pang of conscience.
Richard is portrayed as suffering a pang of conscience, but as he speaks he regains his confidence and asserts that he will be evil, if such needed to retain his crown.

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