910; Aristides[obs3]; noble liver|!, pattern.
     brick*, trump*, gem, jewel, good fellow, prince, diamond in the rough,
rough diamond, ugly duckling|!.
     salt of the earth; one in ten thousand; one in a million; a gentleman
and a scholar; pillar of society, pillar of the community, a man among men. 
     Phr. si sic omnes[Lat]!

     #949.  Bad Man. —­ N. bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity; evildoer
&c. 913; sinner; the wicked &c. 945; bad example.
     villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash[obs3], caitiff|!;
wretch, reptile, viper, serpent, cockatrice, basilisk, urchin; tiger|!, monster; devil &c. (demon) 980; devil incarnate; demon in human shape, Nana Sahib; hellhound, hellcat; rakehell[obs3].
     bad woman, jade, Jezebel.
     scamp, scapegrace, rip, runagate, ne’er-do-well, reprobate, scalawag,
scallawag.
     rou[French], rake; Sadist; skeesicks*[obs3], skeezix* [obs3][U.S.];
limb; one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee[Fr], vaurien[obs3], mauvais sujet[Fr], loose fish, sad dog; rounder*; lost sheep, black sheep; castaway, recreant, defaulter; prodigal &c. 818.
     rough, rowdy, hooligan, tough, ugly customer, mean mother [coll.],
ruffian, bully, meanie [jocular]; Jonathan Wild; hangman.
     incendiary, arsonist, fire bug [U.S.].
     thief &c. 792; murderer, terrorist &c. 361.
     [person who violates the criminal law] culprit, delinquent, crook,
hoodlum, hood, criminal, thug, malefactor, offender, perpetrator, perp [coll.]; disorderly person, misdemeanant[Law]; outlaw; scofflaw; vandal; felon[convicted criminal]; convict, prisoner, inmate, jail bird, ticket of leave man; multiple offender.
     blackguard, polisson[obs3], loafer, sneak; rapscallion,
rascallion[obs3]; cullion[obs3], mean wretch, varlet, kern[obs3], ame-de-boue[Fr], drole[obs3]; cur, dog, hound|!, whelp|!, mongrel|!; lown|!, loon, runnion[obs3], outcast, vagabond; rogue &c. (knave) 941; ronian[obs3]; scum of the earth, riffraff; Arcades ambo[obs3]. 
     Int. sirrah[obs3]! 
     Phr.  Acherontis pabulum[obs3]; gibier de potence[Fr].

     #950.  Penitence. —­ N. penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance,
remorse; regret &c. 833.
     self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-
humiliation; stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience[obs3], twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience; compunctious visitings of nature[obs3].
     acknowledgment, confession &c. (disclosure) 529; apology &c. 952;
recantation &c. 607; penance &c. 952; resipiscence|!.
     awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae[Lat],
stool of repentance, cuttystool[obs3].
     penitent, repentant, Magdalen, prodigal son, “a sadder and a wiser
man” [Coleridge]. 
     V. repent, be sorry