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sacredness, dignity, and loveliness

sad, gloomy, and suspicious


safe, sensible, and sane


sanguine, impulsive, and irrepressible [sanguine = cheerfully confident;
optimistic]


sarcasm, satire, and ridicule


satiety, surfeit, and tedium


savage, fierce, and intractable


scheming, contriving, and dishonesty


self-absorbed, conceited, and contemptuous


self-conscious, artificial, and affected


self-exacting, laborious, and inexhaustible


selfishness, coarseness, and mendacity [mendacity = untruthfulness]


sense, grace, and good-will


sensibility, harmony, and energy


sensitive, ardent, and conscientious


serene, ineffable, and flawless [ineffable = indescribable]


serious, calm, and searching


settled, adjusted, and balanced


shallow, false, and petty


shapes, forms, and artifices


sharpness, bitterness, and sarcasm


shivering, moaning, and weeping


shrewd, artful, and designing


shy, wild, and provocative


sick, ashamed, and disillusioned


silent, cold, and motionless


simple, full, and impressive


sin, selfishness, and luxury


sincere, placable, and generous [placable = easily calmed; tolerant]


skill, sagacity, and firmness [sagacity = farsighted; wise]


sleekness, stealth, and savagery


slovenly, base, and untrue


slow, reluctant, and unwelcome


smirking, garrulous, and pretentious [garrulous = excessive and trivial
talk]


smooth, sentimental, and harmonious


smug, fat, and complacent


sneers, innuendoes, and insinuations


social, esthetic, and intellectual


solitary, sedentary, and lifeless

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