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  • Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or wrongdoings.
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Contrite(adjective)

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Believing that people are motivated by self interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity

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Cynical(adjective)Cynicism(noun)

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Not willing to believe; not believing

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Incredulous

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Deceptively pleasing in appearance; superficially plausible, but actually wrong.

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Specious

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unpleasantly loud or harsh

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Strident

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