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Significados de contrite em inglês

Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses.

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Mr Cazalet is already my right arm. He gave a rueful grin.
The Only Victor
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Lynx gave a rueful shrug, but brightened when he heard their news.
Hidden Warrior
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The light winked out, and Seregil gave the others a rueful look.
The White Road
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They mature through their different stages with incredible speed. She looked rueful.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
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One section of the force did regard the prospects with rueful countenances.
How Jerusalem Was Won / Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign i...
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He's very remorseful... He's just in a really bad way, she said.
Reuters
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Mr Tupou said Aholelei was regretful and remorseful about what had happened.
Radio NZ
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They said they were very remorseful for their actions at the airport.
Radio NZ
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Now I understood the remorseful strain I had detected in her speeches.
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
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Speaking through an interpreter outside the Hamilton District Court, Mazerat was remorseful.
Radio NZ
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"Never," answered Roxy with a ruthful smile; "but, Phyllis, in school I listen.
Phyllis
Uso de contrite em inglês
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He wanted to produce in them the humble and the contrite heart.
Town and Country Sermons
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Government sources suggested he had misspoken and had been contrite in private.
The Guardian
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She did feel contrite; she really hadn't meant to make him cry.
The Land of Painted Caves
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But a moment later the tone would be low and almost contrite.
The Irish Times
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Phelps was contrite following his first drunken driving arrest a decade ago.
Reuters
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Who feareth the Beneficent in secret and cometh with a contrite heart.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
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Rocio played for the sympathy angle, marshalling his thoughts into contrite concern.
The Naked God
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I am just so contrite I cannot say, she told the publication.
News.com.au
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The next day I returned to St. Mary's with a contrite heart.
Your sad eyes and unforgettable mouth
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Both cars stopped, and the lady got out, cold sober and contrite.
The new yorker
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Of course upon receiving that fine compliment Bumpus became contrite at once.
The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island; or, Marooned Among the Game-f...
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RIM's co-chief executives both sounded contrite on a conference call with analysts.
Reuters
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She's 96. But in his comments, Fuld was not humble or contrite.
Reuters
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No, it is those that are of a contrite spirit do this.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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Wanda, at once contrite and happy, was filled with apologies and explanations.
The Short Cut
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The good woman, seeing her husband so contrite, showed no great anger.
One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories / Right Pleasaunte To...
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