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(Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
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Magdalen
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abject
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apologetic
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compunctious
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confessor
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conscience-stricken
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contrite
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grief-stricken
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humbled
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melted
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penitential
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penitentiary
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prodigal returned
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prodigal son
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regretful
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remorseful
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repentant
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rueful
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sad
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sheepish
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softened
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sorrowful
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sorry
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touched
remorseful
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anxious
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apologetic
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ashamed
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bad
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bitter
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compunctious
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conscience-smitten
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conscience-stricken
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contrite
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embarrassed
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full of remorse
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guilty
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humbled
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humiliated
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mortified
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penitent
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penitential
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regretful
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repentant
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repining
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rueful
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self-accusing
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self-condemning
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self-convicting
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self-debasing
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self-flagellating
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self-humiliating
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self-punishing
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self-reproaching
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shamed
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shamefaced
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shamefast
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shameful
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sorrowful
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sorry
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unhappy about
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wistful
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woeful
repentant
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abject
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apologetic
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ascetic
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ashamed
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atoning
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cleansing
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compensational
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compensatory
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compunctious
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contrite
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embarrassed
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expiatory
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humble
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humbled
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lustral
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lustrational
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lustrative
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melted
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penitent
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penitential
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penitentiary
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piacular
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propitiatory
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purgative
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purgatorial
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purifying
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reclamatory
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recompensing
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redeeming
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redemptive
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redressing
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regretful
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remorseful
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reparative
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reparatory
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repenting
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restitutional
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restitutive
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restitutory
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righting
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rueful
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satisfactional
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sheepish
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softened
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sorry
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squaring
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touched
penitential
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showing or constituting penance; "penitential tears"; "wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words"
of or relating to penitence or penance; "the Day of Atonement is the great penitential day of the Hebrew calendar"
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abject
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amendatory
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apologetic
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ascetic
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atoning
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balancing
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cleansing
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compensating
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compensational
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compensatory
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compunctious
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contrite
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counteracting
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counteractive
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counterbalancing
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countervailing
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expiatory
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humble
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humbled
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indemnificatory
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lustral
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lustrational
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lustrative
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melted
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offsetting
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penitent
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penitentiary
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piacular
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propitiatory
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purgative
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purgatorial
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purifying
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reclamatory
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recompensing
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recompensive
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rectifying
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redeeming
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redemptive
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redressing
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regretful
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reparative
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reparatory
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repentant
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repenting
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restitutional
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restitutive
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restitutory
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retaliatory
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righting
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satisfactional
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sheepish
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softened
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sorry
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squaring
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touched
apologetic
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offering or expressing apology; "an apologetic note"; "an apologetic manner"
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abject
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apologia
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ascetic
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atoning
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cleansing
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compensational
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compensatory
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compunctious
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conscience-stricken
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contrite
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defense
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excusatory
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excusing
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expiatory
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extenuating
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extenuative
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humble
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humbled
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justification
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justificatory
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justifying
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lustral
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lustrational
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lustrative
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melted
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palliative
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penitent
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penitential
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penitentiary
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piacular
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propitiatory
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purgative
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purgatorial
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purifying
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reclamatory
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recompensing
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redeeming
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redemptive
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redressing
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refuting
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regretful
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rehabilitative
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remorseful
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reparative
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reparatory
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repentant
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repenting
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restitutional
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restitutive
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restitutory
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righting
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rueful
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satisfactional
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sheepish
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softened
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sorry
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squaring
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touched
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vindicative
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vindicatory
sorry
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abject
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apologetic
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ashamed
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bad
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base
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base-minded
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beggarly
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beneath contempt
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beneath one
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cheap
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cheerless
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cheesy
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common
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compunctious
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conscience-smitten
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conscience-stricken
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contemptible
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contrite
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crummy
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debasing
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degrading
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demeaning
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deplorable
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depressing
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despicable
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discontented
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disgraceful
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dismal
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full of remorse
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gaudy
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gimcracky
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grim
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gutter
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heavyhearted
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humiliating
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humiliative
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humorless
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ignoble
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ill-starred
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in bad humor
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inadequate
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infestive
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infra dig
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infra indignitatem
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joyless
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low
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low-minded
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mean
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melancholy
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meretricious
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mirthless
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miserable
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opprobrious
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out of humor
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out of sorts
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outrageous
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paltry
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pathetic
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penitent
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penitential
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pitiable
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pitiful
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pleasureless
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poor
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regretful
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remorseful
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repentant
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repining
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rubbishy
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rueful
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sad
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saddened
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scandalous
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scrubby
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scruffy
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scummy
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scurvy
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scuzzy
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self-accusing
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self-condemning
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self-convicting
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self-debasing
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self-flagellating
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self-humiliating
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self-punishing
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self-reproaching
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shabby
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shamefaced
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shamefast
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shameful
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shocking
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shoddy
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sordid
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sorrowful
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sorryish
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star-crossed
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stark
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too bad
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trashy
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trifling
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trumpery
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two-for-a-cent
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two-for-a-penny
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twopenny
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twopenny-halfpenny
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unbecoming
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uncheerful
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uncheery
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unhappy
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unhappy about
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unjoyful
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unmirthful
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unsmiling
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unworthy of one
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valueless
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vile
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wistful
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worthless
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wretched
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