kept distance (verb) beware: be careful
Sinonime: atoning, attritional, compunctious,
conciliatory, contrite, expiatory, explanatory, on one's knees, penitent, penitential, propitiatory, regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful, self-effacing, self-incriminating, sorry, supplicating
Antonime: defiant, defying