Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses.
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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