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| scruples - An uneasy feeling arising from conscience or principle that tends to hinder action "I let many chances slip by because of scruples about it, scruples, convention-crap....all that stuff is bull, bull, bull!" mirth - Gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter "She hangs up and bellows with mirth." Banshee - A wailing woman "Susie didn't think so she screamed like a banshee." Malignant - Very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect "Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant." grimace - A sharp contortion of the face expressive of pain, contempt, or disgust "Big Daddy has been regarding her with a steady grimace of chronic annoyance." |
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