Meanings of so contrite in anglès

I am just so contrite I cannot say, she told the publication.

The good woman, seeing her husband so contrite, showed no great anger.

He looked so contrite, she wondered if he might be telling the truth.

He was so contrite that I had to console him.

I am just so contrite I cannot say.

Marie Boyer is so contrite, exemplary in her behaviour that she is released after fifteen years' imprisonment.

And then I was so contrite that I began to pray for myself as hard as I could, and forgot all about China.

Always after his impulsive outbreaks he became so contrite that the early displeasure was abated by his unspoken but evident desire for forgiveness.

Julia was so contrite and trying so hard to be friendly that neither Janet nor Cat had the heart to go off on their own.

So contrite was her tone that Jenks was astonished.