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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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