qualms, hesitation, scruples, justification, regrets, remorse, intention, hellbent, pretense, knack, vested interest, temerity, minces, adept, guilt, abhorrence, equivocating, malice, conscience, pretensions, evilness, chutzpa, slouch, inclination, excuse, disdain, empathy, aspersion, gall, browbeating, repugnance, sympathy, audacity, intension, heartlessness, squeamishness, distaste, proclivity, penchant, caviling, predilection, condescension, ruthlessness, underhandedness, pusillanimity, callousness, intent, willy nilly, shaming, inadvisability, misgivings, trepidation, apologies, murderousness, forked tongue, chary, jollies, advisability, distain, pretext, disgust, carte blanche, flaying, toadying, pillorying, craven, complicity, jackboot, inkling, pittances, amour propre, moral obligation, timidity, pantywaist, fealty, aggressing, themself, mollycoddle, pennyworth, hesitancy, pity, wrongness, partiality, doubt, despots, milksop, bent, privacies, haughtiness, dosh, foreknowledge, innocents, couth, recourse, niceties, hypocrisy, ambivalence, trouble, bounden, malevolence, pangs, smugness, misgiving, uneasiness, contrition, annoyance, regret, scruple, disquietude, disquiet, vexation, perplexity, alarm, compunctions, consolation, displeasure, embarrassment

guilty conscience, guilt feelings, guilt trip, penance, penitence, repentance

cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate

ruefulness, sorrow

self-reproach