Abject
Abject adjective - Showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissiveness.
Compunctious and abject are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Compunctious" instead an adjective "Abject".
Compunctious
Compunctious adjective - Feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done.
Abject and compunctious are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Abject" instead an adjective "Compunctious".
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