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Meanings of contrite in inglés
Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses.
Synonyms
Examples for "rueful"
Examples for "rueful"
1
Mr Cazalet is already my right arm. He gave a rueful grin.
2
Lynx gave a rueful shrug, but brightened when he heard their news.
3
The light winked out, and Seregil gave the others a rueful look.
4
They mature through their different stages with incredible speed. She looked rueful.
5
One section of the force did regard the prospects with rueful countenances.
1
He's very remorseful... He's just in a really bad way, she said.
2
Mr Tupou said Aholelei was regretful and remorseful about what had happened.
3
They said they were very remorseful for their actions at the airport.
4
Now I understood the remorseful strain I had detected in her speeches.
5
Speaking through an interpreter outside the Hamilton District Court, Mazerat was remorseful.
1
"Never," answered Roxy with a ruthful smile; "but, Phyllis, in school I listen.
Usage of contrite in inglés
1
He wanted to produce in them the humble and the contrite heart.
2
Government sources suggested he had misspoken and had been contrite in private.
3
She did feel contrite; she really hadn't meant to make him cry.
4
But a moment later the tone would be low and almost contrite.
5
Phelps was contrite following his first drunken driving arrest a decade ago.
6
Who feareth the Beneficent in secret and cometh with a contrite heart.
7
Rocio played for the sympathy angle, marshalling his thoughts into contrite concern.
8
I am just so contrite I cannot say, she told the publication.
9
The next day I returned to St. Mary's with a contrite heart.
10
Both cars stopped, and the lady got out, cold sober and contrite.
11
Of course upon receiving that fine compliment Bumpus became contrite at once.
12
RIM's co-chief executives both sounded contrite on a conference call with analysts.
13
She's 96. But in his comments, Fuld was not humble or contrite.
14
No, it is those that are of a contrite spirit do this.
15
Wanda, at once contrite and happy, was filled with apologies and explanations.
16
The good woman, seeing her husband so contrite, showed no great anger.
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Contrite through the time
Contrite across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common